This is an analysis of the poem The Ancient World that begins with:
Today the Masons are auctioning
their discarded pomp: a trunk of turbans, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbXXcd bbcefag hXeXiib jkgbkal Xmbbdej baiblXm fjXmXcX mcncgXh ccmicib nccfXia ofoikkb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010101100 1010101010 10110101101001 1001010100000 11000111100 0010110 110001011010 1010010110001 010010001 10101011101001 100101001010 0100111101 1010101110 111101 11111101 0100110011110 010100110 1001010100 0110111010101 0100100111 010101011 10010111 110001000101 11110010010 1010111101 01111101 11001110 110101010 100001010 11010011011 0101101 100110 1110010010 11001000100 1101001001 10010110001 011000100 00100110 100100100110 01011100101 0110010000 11100011 11000010001001 0101001 1101001 100100110 00100110 001010101 01011101 1101101 100111001011 011100001001 0100101010 0111010 111010011100 11000110100 111010110101 001101110 1101011101010 101011010 1000100010 1011111010 011111001001 001010111001 101110001101 101101111001 10100101001 11010000 1111111 010010010 100001011 101000101 010111001 01110101 00100101 10011010 100011010100101
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 280
- Average number of words per stanza: 46
- Amount of lines: 77
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (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; to, in, i, he are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word even is repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase i connects the lines.
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- summary of The Ancient World;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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