This is an analysis of the poem An Interregnum that begins with:
LOUD trumpets blow among the naked pines,
Fine spun as sere-cloth rent from royal dead.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcadecXXfa gedaXabaXahfad eabaaXhbgaecX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 11,14,13,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1101010101 1111110101 1101110101 1101110101 1011010101 0101011001 1010010101 1101001101 1001010101 1111111101 11010 10001 1011010111 0101010001 11010010101 1111101100 1101010101 0101010101 1101010101 1011111101 1111011101 1111010111 0111010101 111010101 1101110101 0101010001 1001010111 01110011101 1101010101 01001110001 1111010011 1011010001 1001000101 1101010001 1111010101 1111110011 0100111001 01011100010
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 539
- Average number of words per stanza: 94
- Amount of lines: 38
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; of, with, thy are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word come is repeated.
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