This is an analysis of the poem The Voices Of Hellas that begins with:
Time, that has crumbled to impotent nothingness
Empire on empire, towering in arrogance,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXX bXXb XXXa XbXb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111100100100 10011001000100 111101000010 1100010100100 11100111010 0100101001001 10111010000100 0110101011 110101110100 101001010 10100101011 1100001101 1001001001000 101001010 110111000100 10101010010
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 173
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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