This is an analysis of the poem After Reading "Antony And Cleopatra" that begins with:

AS when the hunt by holt and field
Drives on with horn and strife,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: Xaba XcXc Xdbd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: ballad stanza
  • Metre: 11011111 110111 10010101 110011 01111101 0100010 01110111 101000010 11010101 010101 011010101 100101
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 124
  • Average number of words per stanza: 23
  • Amount of lines: 12
  • Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to is repeated.

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