This is an analysis of the poem Bkiii:Xvi Just Enough that begins with:
The towers made of bronze, and the doors made of oak,
and the watch-dogs sombre vigil, would, surely, have...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbc deef ghha eihi idXX jXkl eici iidb mjdh nmnkXilgf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010101101101 10111101101 00100101010 00100001 010011101010 11000110100 111101101110 001101001 110100010110 111011011100 11011011011 01001011 01010101010 101001011010 001011011110 01110010 010010101101 101011111010 110011111100 1000100 011010101101 010011101101 011111010100 10001001 011001001111 100011011011 11001010010 10101110 010110011110 101001001011 1111011100010 10001100 10101001111 11011100011 101101101100 11001001 1101110010100 101111110101 111111110100 101011010 10100101001 00101001111 101011001011 10100101
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 177
- Average number of words per stanza: 33
- Amount of lines: 44
- 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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, me, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word to is repeated.
The author used the same word a at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The words/phrases gold, much connect the lines.
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