This is an analysis of the poem There Are Not Many Kingdoms Left that begins with:
I write the lips of the moon upon her shoulders. In a
temple of silvery farawayness I guard her to rest....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ab aXb Xc bc XXX dXd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,3,2,2,3,3,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: rondeau
- Metre: 11010010101000 100100100011001 101110101010100 100101001101 10001101 10010101101110 10010 01011101000101 1010 0100100011000 111111001100101 110100101011010 11100100011001 01001001101 1010101011001010
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 118
- Average number of words per stanza: 21
- Amount of lines: 15
- Average number of symbols per line: 47 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, of, her are repeated.
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