This is an analysis of the poem A Statesman's Holiday that begins with:
I lived among great houses,
Riches drove out rank,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbXadaceceD fbXbXXaaXebeD XadabbbbadfdD
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 13,13,13,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101110 10111 1110101 111101 1101010 110101 11010111 10111 1111001 110101 11110101 111101 11110011101 11011100 110101 01010011 010001 1110010 10101 10111010 111111 1010001 10111 11110 110101 11110011101 0111011 010101 0011010 0111 0010101 011101 00111 0010101 0011010 0010101 001110 01111 11110011101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 368
- Average number of words per stanza: 71
- Amount of lines: 39
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; or, with are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words or, with are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word avalon at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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