This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet: Before He Went that begins with:
BEFORE he went to feed with owls and bats
Nebuchadnezzar had an ugly dream,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaXbbacdXcdX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 0111010111 1000011101 1111011101 101001111 1111111101 11011010101 0101111011 010101010111 0101110011 0111001101 1101110111 1101011001 1101011101 1101111101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 588
- Average number of words per stanza: 116
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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