This is an analysis of the poem Macaulay that begins with:
THE DREAMY rhymer’s measur’d snore
Falls heavy on our ears no more;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddbbccaXcc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01010101 11011111 11111101 01010101 11110111 01010111 11100101 111111001 01010101 110101001 11011111 11011101 11010111 01011100 11010111 101101001
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 590
- Average number of words per stanza: 109
- Amount of lines: 16
- 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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; d, and are repeated.
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