This is an analysis of the poem At Verona that begins with:
HOW steep the stairs within Kings' houses are
For exile-wearied feet as mine to tread,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaabXa ccXdXd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1101011101 1111011101 1111110001 1100110101 1111001101 1101010111 1011111100 1101001101 1111110110 1101010101 0011010101 1101110101 1101111101 1111010001
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 362
- Average number of words per stanza: 59
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 52 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
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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