This is an analysis of the poem What Semiramis Said that begins with:
The moon's a steaming chalice,
Of honey and venom-wine. ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXabcbcbdad
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0101010 0101101 01000111 1011001 1111010 110111 11110101 110111 01000101 101111 01011101 101101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 357
- Average number of words per stanza: 67
- Amount of lines: 12
- 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; and is repeated.
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