This is an analysis of the poem Honour Dishonoured that begins with:
Honoured I lived e'erwhile with honoured men
In opulent state. My table nightly spread... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abaXbaba cdcdbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1001110001001 01001110101 1101111100 1101110100 1101110111 11001111100 1011111101 11011011111 0101011101 1101110101 1100011101 1111010111 1101010001 1011000101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 301
- Average number of words per stanza: 56
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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; and, to are repeated.
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