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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