This is an analysis of the poem XIV. 'Let all men see the ruins of the shrine' that begins with:
Let all men see the ruins of the shrine
That I, with passionate and holy care,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbabaabXbabaaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 15,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1111010001 1101001101 1101010101 1101110101 1011010101 0101110101 1101101101 1011110101 1011010111 0101000101 0101000101 1111010101 1101110111 1111111101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 293
- Average number of words per stanza: 58
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of is repeated.
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