This is an analysis of the poem Bkii:Xv Excess that begins with:
Not long now and our princely buildings will leave
few acres under the plough, ornamental...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xabc XccX cXab XXcX Xcbc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111101001 11010011010 100101011 1010101011 011011011100 11101101001 010111101 1111101010 11101001101 10010110100 111100101 1110101001 10100110011 01011110100 101011001 0111100101 10010110101 00111010010 101100001 1100101010
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 168
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
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