This is an analysis of the poem At Stonehenge that begins with:
Grim stones whose gray lips keep your secret well,
Our hands that touch you touch an ancient terror,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcdeeeeeXec
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1111111101 11111111010 1101010101 011111001010 1110110101 110100101010 1101011111 10110101010 0111010101 010011101010 1100011101 01110011110 10101010100 01011010000 1101110111 11110100010
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 704
- Average number of words per stanza: 113
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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