This is an analysis of the poem On A Modern Graachus that begins with:
The slave that found the noble Gracchus' head,
To gain more gold replaced the brains with lead;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0111010101 0111110101 1111001101 1001110101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 187
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 4
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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