This is an analysis of the poem The Idler’s Calendar. Twelve Sonnets For The Months. October that begins with:

GAMBLING AT MONACO
A jewelled kingdom set impregnable... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: X ababXaba cXcXdbdd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,8,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1001101 01001010100 01011101001 0101011101 1101010101 1011110100 1101011101 1101011111 1011101101 0111111101 0011110110 0101010101 01101101011 1101110101 1111010101 1111110101 11010001001
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 244
  • Average number of words per stanza: 44
  • Amount of lines: 17
  • 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.

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  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
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