This is an analysis of the poem In The Harbour: A Quiet Life. (From The French) that begins with:
Let him who will, by force or fraud innate,
Of courtly grandeurs gain the slippery height; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaaaaaaXXbccb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1110111101 01010101001 1101010101 1001110101 1011110001 1101010101 01010010111 1001011101 1101011101 0101011101 1100110101 1100010101 1101011101 1101100101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 619
- Average number of words per stanza: 109
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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.
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