This is an analysis of the poem On A Picture Of Seneca Dying In A Bath, By Jordain that begins with:

While cruel Nero only drains
The moral Spaniard's ebbing veins,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccdaddXXee
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic tetrameter or irregular meter
  • Metre: 11010101 01010101 11011101 11110001 10011111 11110101 11110101 11011101 11110101 0110001 11010110 11110001 11110111 11110111
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 493
  • Average number of words per stanza: 86
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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; have is repeated.

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