This is an analysis of the poem Two Figures In Dense Violet Light that begins with:
I had as lief be embraced by the portier of the hotel
As to get no more from the moonlight...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abc XdX Xed eec aab Xbd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,3,3,3,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111001101000001 101110011 1111 0010011100011 1101110100 1011 110101011110 1111100011 0101 101100011010 1100101001 0101 101101011011 1101110011 0111 11011100101 1111011001 1011
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 109
- Average number of words per stanza: 21
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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