This is an analysis of the poem Aquae Sulis that begins with:
The chimes called midnight, just at interlune,
And the daytime talk on the Roman investigations... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXa bXbb cbcX dede XbXX XXaXXeeee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0111111100 10111101001010 11110110101 0100101101010 1011110101 10101001011000 1010011101101 101111000101 100101110101 00100100010101 1101111001110 110100101100 110110111101 00111011001001 11011011111 1111011101 111100101011 010010111111 110111111001110 110111110100 10111011010010 1111101111001 0011110011110010 111111101111101 1010110100111 111010110101 011010001101001 10101001001001
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 207
- Average number of words per stanza: 38
- Amount of lines: 33
- 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, as are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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