This is an analysis of the poem Democritus And Heraclitus that begins with:
Democritus, dear droll, revisit earth,
And with our follies glut thy heighten'd mirth:... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbcc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1000110101 1011011101 11000100101 0101110101 0111110111 1111110111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 252
- Average number of words per stanza: 42
- Amount of lines: 6
- 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.
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