This is an analysis of the poem Ozymandias that begins with:
I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: `Two vast and trunkless legs of stone... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababaacadcXXdX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 11010001011 1111110101 1001010101 1101010111 1101110101 1101011101 1101111101 0111010111 1101001101 10101000101 11111101100 1001011001 0101011011 0111011110
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 638
- Average number of words per stanza: 112
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; that, and are repeated.
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