This is an analysis of the poem Of Sardanapalus's Dishonorable Life And Miserable Death. that begins with:
TH' Assyrian king, in peace, with foul desire
And filthy lusts that stain'd his regal heart ;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcXccdbdbee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1010010101010 1101110101 01111101110 0110110101 010101011 11010101011 0101010101 0101010101 1101011001 101110001 1001001001 1111010101 1101010101 1001011101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 651
- Average number of words per stanza: 110
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; his, of are repeated.
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