This is an analysis of the poem Roman Elegies I that begins with:
Tell me you stones, O speak, you towering palaces!
Streets, say a word! Spirit of this place, are you dumb?...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abacXXXXbXcXXb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1111111100100 110110001111 1110101101 0101101111 1010011110 01101110101110 01011011000100 101111111111 1101111010110 1010011010010010 11001011001110 110010010101 11101111011 0110111001
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 703
- Average number of words per stanza: 137
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 49 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you, i, and are repeated.
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