This is an analysis of the poem Those Graves In Rome that begins with:

There are places where the eye can starve,
But not here. Here, for example, is...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcdXbefXghfifibijijXgkjjjfekifglXXgebajbmgjhXnejcXekffflkbnakmbjdjcX Xf
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 69,2,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 111010111 111110100 00101001100101 1010011010110 1011001001010 111101011 01010010101 111100101 0110100110 11010101010 1101010101 111010101110 110001000 10101001011 110101001011 111011101 1111010110 10001011101 111101111 1101111111 10110110110 0110010111 0101011000 010100101010 01010110011 010110011111 01011110101 101111001 1011010011 0100011101 1101101011 101101011 11011101010 11010100101100 111110001 1001110101 010010010111 111010111 11001101101 0111101011 1101010101 11101001001 01010110011 101101000 10100000101 0010010011110 0110111111 0101011110 010101110101 111010110 0100111000 01011011101 011110001 00100011101 010100010111 1001011110111 01110101011100 11110111011 01010110111 011010111 011101100 0101111001 0101000111 1110101010 01000111001 1000010110110 11001111101 0100101101 010111011101 0100010
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1506
  • Average number of words per stanza: 265
  • Amount of lines: 71
  • Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; here, that, not, of are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, a, the, his are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines quinine is repeated).

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