This is an analysis of the poem The Ravaged Villa that begins with:
In shards the sylvan vases lie,
Their links of dance undone,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXaXbXb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01010101 110101 11010111 110001 01000101 0111010 11010101 1111010
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 246
- Average number of words per stanza: 44
- Amount of lines: 8
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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