This is an analysis of the poem The Shears Of Fate that begins with:
Khayyam, who stitched the tents of science,
Has fallen in grief's furnace and been suddenly burned,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101101010 1100110101001 010111011001 101001111110
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 216
- Average number of words per stanza: 38
- Amount of lines: 4
- Average number of symbols per line: 53 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of is repeated.
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