This is an analysis of the poem Lines Composed In A Concert-Room that begins with:

Nor cold nor stern my soul! Yet I detest
These scented rooms, where to a gaudy throug,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXaX bXba acaac adadada defefggfXfeggefffffff
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,5,7,21,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1111111101 1101100101 1011000101 01000001001 111101001011 0111010101 11011101101 1001111100 1011010011 101100011001 11011101001 1011010101 1010010001 1110010101 0111010111 1100110111 0101111101 1111010101 0111010101 0101110101 1101010101 0011011111 0101010101 1111010101 1111110111 1101011011 1001111111 1011010101 1111111101 1011010111 1011010111 0111110101 1001110101 1011110001 11010111110 11011101010 0101010111 1101010101 1101110111 1011010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 292
  • Average number of words per stanza: 53
  • Amount of lines: 40
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • 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; and, of, or are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word or is repeated.

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