This is an analysis of the poem To Urania that begins with:

Everything has its limit, including sorrow.
A windowpane stalls a stare. Nor does a grill abandon...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abacXbXbabXdebebXdcXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 21,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 101101001010 01011011101010 01111001101010 100101110 01011010001010 001011001110 1101101010 1010110010 1111001011010 0111001110 11011101011 11111001010 1111101010 10101011110 101011011 1110110101011 1101011010 0110111100 111100111011 10110 10011111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 934
  • Average number of words per stanza: 161
  • Amount of lines: 21
  • Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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