This is an analysis of the poem Epitaph On Rabelais that begins with:
Pluto, bid Rabelais welcome to thy shore,
That thou, who art the king of woe and pain,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 10110010011 1111010111 1011010101 1101001101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 174
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- Amount of lines: 4
- 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.
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