This is an analysis of the poem Ode To Apollo. On An Inkglass Almost Dried In The Sun that begins with:

Patron of all those luckless brains,
That, to the wrong side leaning,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababaaaXcdcdefefaeaeghghgfgf
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 28,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10011101 1001110 0111011 1101110 11110101 1101010 110011001 0101000 11000101 110001 010111001 010101 10000101 010101 10110111 110111 10011101 010101 01110001 111101 010011101 0101001 01110111 110001 1010101 010011 11110111 010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 846
  • Average number of words per stanza: 157
  • Amount of lines: 28
  • Average number of symbols per line: 29 (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.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of is repeated.

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