This is an analysis of the poem An Inscription that begins with:
At this fair oak table sat
Whilom he our Laureate,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeXXXffeeaaffffgghh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 26,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011101 1011100 1010001 10101001 1010111 1010101 1010111 0010101 1110001 0011011 1001111 1011100 1010111 1110111 1011101 1100001 10000111 1110101 1010001 0111011 1010111 1010111 1111001 1010101 1111111 1111101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 814
- Average number of words per stanza: 145
- Amount of lines: 26
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (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.
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