This is an analysis of the poem Washington's Monument, February, 1885 that begins with:
Ah, not this marble, dead and cold:
Far from its base and shaft expanding—the round zones circling, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xaa bX cdc eXb dd cX cecXc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,2,3,3,2,2,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010111 100111010011100 1010 110011010100010 11010100 101101001100111001 1101110101000100 01 11010100011001010 10010101110101 010001010 0010001111001010 1 100101010110001 010101 0101011101111111 110101111110011 11011111001010101 01010111010111 1101011100
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 143
- Average number of words per stanza: 22
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 50 (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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; or is repeated.
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