This is an analysis of the poem Incense that begins with:
Think not that incense-smoke has had its day.
My friends, the incense-time has but begun. ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xaba XcXc bcXc adXd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1110111101 1100111110 1011101111 1101110101 110100111 1101010101 1101000011 1111000111 1111111101 1101011111 1001000101 1001010001 1111011011 0111011101 1111010101 1111110011
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 184
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (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.
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- summary of Incense;
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- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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