This is an analysis of the poem Esther, A Sonnet Sequence: Xxxi that begins with:
The booths were shut. The Fair was at an end,
And the crowd gone with multitudinous feet... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababbXbXcdcddd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 0101011111 10110100001 10011100101 1111101001 0111010001 11010101111 1101110011 1111110101 1101010011 0001011101 0101010101 1101101111 01010001001 0111001101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 611
- Average number of words per stanza: 112
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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; at is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
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