This is an analysis of the poem Cities And Thrones And Powers that begins with:

Cities and Thrones and Powers,
Stand in Time's eye,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababcdcd eaeafefe gbgbcXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10110110 1011 1111110 1101 111111 0111 10011100001 010101 010101 1101 111111 1111 101100 1101 1001010100 000100 1110101 0110 1011011 1111 101101 11001 1101110101 11111000
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 203
  • Average number of words per stanza: 36
  • Amount of lines: 24
  • Average number of symbols per line: 25 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 4
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; what, as are repeated.

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