This is an analysis of the poem Rubens' Hell that begins with:
VENUS with rosy-cloven rump
And rings of straw-bright flying hair ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabacbXdddedXfgfhgeijikjfkdkcdjhXhkc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 36,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10010101 11011101 100111110 11011101 110111001 010101110 110111100 11010101 11110111 011101001 110011101 01010101 11011101 01011101 11011101 11011101 11110101 10010111 10010111 10001101 01110001 11010101 11111101 11011101 01010101 11010101 01010111 01011101 11000111 11010111 11010101 11110101 0100101110 11010101 11110101 110100010
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1305
- Average number of words per stanza: 229
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, rubens are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, rubens are repeated.
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