This is an analysis of the poem Versicles On Sign-Posts that begins with:
CURS'D be the man, the poorest wretch in life,
The crouching vassal to a tyrant wife!... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1001010101 0101000101 11101101010 11110100010 1101011101 1101010111 0101110011 1101011101 1100010001 11011100111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 444
- Average number of words per stanza: 87
- Amount of lines: 10
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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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