This is an analysis of the poem Ruins that begins with:
Shall we tread the dust of ages,
Musing, dreamlike, on the past,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcd efXfagag Xeeehihi jjjjeXef abaXXjkj kdkdfgXg flflfbXb XdXdlbhb agXgajaj cfcfejXj eaXXfjfj afafcmcm agagbjbj lahaeaeX dkdkXbXb bdbdcici XdXdefef XdXdgbgbXkakahfhf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,17,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11101010 1011101 10101110 1011111 10111010 0110111 10100010 1110101 10101010 1010101 11011010 1011101 100101010 1010101 10111010 1010101 10101000 110101 10101010 1110001 10110010 1010111 101001110 1010101 10101010 1010101 11101010 1010111 01101010 0111110 001110110 1010001 10100010 1010001 10110010 0010001 10101100 101101 01101010 1110101 10101010 1010101 11111010 0010001 10101010 1010101 10101100 1000111 101001010 1011101 11100010 1010001 111010100 1010111 10100010 10101101 111011 1110101 1011010 1010101 1110101 1010101 11101010 1111001 10111010 1110101 1010110 1110111 10111010 0010111 10111010 1010001 11111110 1110101 11101110 1110001 10101010 1110101 10111100 1010101 101011010 10010001 100111100 1010100 10111010 1111101 11110010 1110101 111110010 1110101 11101010 1010101 01000110 1111101 10101010 1010101 10101010 1010111 10101010 1010101 10101011 1110101 10111011 1010111 10101011 1111101 10101010 1011111 10111010 1010111 00110110 10101110 1110101 1011101 1010101 1010111 11111010 1010101 10111011 1110001 10101111 0110101 00100111 1011011 10111010 1010111 10111010 011011 11111010 110101 10101010 10111001 10101010 1010101 10101010 10100 101001111 1110001 1011110 10111001 11101110 0011111 10111010 1011101 101010010 1111011 01100010 11100111 11010010 110101 11101010 1010101
- Amount of stanzas: 19
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 254
- Average number of words per stanza: 46
- Amount of lines: 152
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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; of, we, as, our are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words must, if, our are repeated.
The author used the same words by, how at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase low connects the lines.
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- summary of Ruins;
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