This is an analysis of the poem An Imitation Of Some French Verses that begins with:

Relentless Time! destroying Pow'r
Whom Stone and Brass obey,...

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  • Rhyme scheme: XabacdcdeaeafcfcdgdbheXefcXcXfXfcicibgbgacachehedidicici
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 56,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 01010101 111101 110101010 011101 01010101 110101 11010101 110101 11010111 011101 101100101 111101 01111101 011001 11010101 010101 11001101 110101 11010101 1101010 110100101 111101 11010101 110001 11110101 010111 110111100 010111 11110101 110101 11011101 110101 11010101 010101 11010111 110101 111101010 1110001 100100010 010111 01010111 010101 11111101 110101 11111101 110101 11110111 110111 10011101 010101 110010011 110101 11010101 011101 01010001 011101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1706
  • Average number of words per stanza: 310
  • Amount of lines: 56
  • Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; my is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words ye, in are repeated.

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