This is an analysis of the poem The Relic Taken, What Avails The Shrine? that begins with:
THE relic taken, what avails the shrine?
The locket, pictureless? O heart of mine,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb bbaa bccX ddee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0101011001 01010001101 111111 1101011111 0101010111 11010011001 110111 1011010111 0101010111 01010000111 110111 11011101000 0101110101 0101010111 010111 01011010011
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 155
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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