This is an analysis of the poem On Perseus and Medusa that begins with:
In what fierce spasms upgathered, on the plain
Medusa's headless corpse has quivering sunk,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaaaaacdcdee
- 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: 011101000101 10010111001 1101010101 0110010101 1011010101 01001011111 1101011111 1101010011 1101010101 11010010101 11001101001 1111010101 0101010001 1011011111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 620
- Average number of words per stanza: 106
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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.
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