This is an analysis of the poem Rondel Of Merciless Beauty that begins with:
Your two great eyes will slay me suddenly;
Their beauty shakes me who was once serene;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABB abABXabbABB
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,11,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1111011100 1101111101 1111010111 1011010100 0111110101 1111011100 1101111101 0111111100 1111011111 1011011101 1111011100 1101111101 1111010111
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 195
- Average number of words per stanza: 37
- Amount of lines: 13
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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