This is an analysis of the poem Nebuchadnezzar's Fall that begins with:
Frowning over the riddle that Daniel told,
Down through the mist hung garden, below a feeble sun,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab caca aaaa dadX efef
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 10100101101 1101110010101 01010110101 01110011101 11010010101 11011100111 1101101011111 10000111001 1111010111 1101111101 1110011101 1111010111 1101110111 1111101001 10011101101 010100110100 11111011111 010111100111 110101111111 1100101101111
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 206
- Average number of words per stanza: 37
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 51 (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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; for, here, his, he, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words here, he are repeated.
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