This is an analysis of the poem Lines On The Mermaid Tavern that begins with:
Souls of Poets dead and gone,
What Elysium have ye known,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AAAAaaXXbbaa ccddeeaaffXAAAA
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,15,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010111 10100111 10111010 10101110 1110111 1110101 1110101 1011101 010011001 1111101 1001100 1110111 1111101 1111101 1111101 1100011 00111010 11110110 1010111 1010001 11000101 01100101 1010111 10100111 10111010 10101110
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 294
- Average number of words per stanza: 46
- Amount of lines: 26
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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