This is an analysis of the poem The Skulls that begins with:
A sumptuous, brilliantly lighted hall; a number of ladies and gentlemen.
All the faces are animated, the talk is lively…. A noisy conversation is...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X abb ccXa XXXa d Xcdb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,3,4,4,1,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 01001001010100101100 1010110100101001010100 10101010101011001010 1110101110011 1100110101010101001 101001110100100011 1010000101010010111 0101001111 01011001001111010 0100001001110011010 11010000101010100 1001 1111111111111001 1011010110110110 1101101110010110 1101100011000000101 01010110111
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 181
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- Amount of lines: 17
- Average number of symbols per line: 63 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, of, balls are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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