This is an analysis of the poem Rome At The Pyramid Of Cestius Near The Graves Of Shelley And Keats (1887) that begins with:

Who, then, was Cestius,
   And what is he to me? - ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXa bbbb Xcdc efef dada bgbg
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11110 110101 0111110010000 110111 110111 110110 111001111111 110100 110110 100101 111101010111 110001 100110 111100 111011011100 110101 1100101 110101 01110011100101 110101 1111111 111101 111111010101 101101
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 182
  • Average number of words per stanza: 23
  • Amount of lines: 24
  • Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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