This is an analysis of the poem A Phylactery that begins with:
Wise men I hold those rakes of old
Who, as we read in antique story, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abaaB cbccB dbddB ebeeB XbaaB
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,5,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111101 111100110 110011111 10111101 01010 11110111 110101010 111101001 011100101 01010 11010101 110101010 01010011 11011101 01010 11111111 010101010 10100111 01001101 01010 11110101 1101110110 11010100 111110111 01010
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 166
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 25
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; love is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word mori at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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