This is an analysis of the poem Melancholy. A Fragment. that begins with:
Stretched on a mouldered Abbey's broadest wall,
Where ruining ivies propped the ruins steep--... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab ccdd dedeX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,5,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 11010010101 11001010101 0101100101 1101010101 01110101 01110111 1111010111 011111001001 1101110101 1100010101 0101010101 1011010101 1101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 187
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 13
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; her is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
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