This is an analysis of the poem The Pimlico Pavilion that begins with:
Ye pathrons of janius, Minerva and Vanius,
Who sit on Parnassus, that mountain of snow,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabX cadX caXX XacX XaXX XacX XaXX XabX baXX aacX XaXX eaXX cacX eXbX dXXX XafX XXfX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110010010110 11111011001 100110111010 001001001100 010110010110 01011111101 111010011010 101001101100 11110101011010 1001001001 010110010100 101101001100 1010100011010 01101111011 1111010110010 10010001100 1101100111000 11001010001 11011001101100 11110001100 111110110010 1010110110001 011100010110 001001001100 111100110010 11101001001 010110110110 01001001100 110010110100 11111001101 011010111010 101111001100 110110010111 11001011101 1110010011111 11101001100 1100110111001 11101001011 111100011010 01001001100 101010001011 101011001001 111110110100 11011001100 1101100111100 101110111111 1110110011010 11011001100 110110110110 11111011011 101010100111100 11001001100 00100101100111 101011001110 1010100010110 111001001100 111110110110 011010101010 1011110110011 11111001100 110010010010 11111001011 111000110110 11001011100 1010010110100 10001011101 1100101101100 11011011100
- Amount of stanzas: 17
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 191
- Average number of words per stanza: 33
- Amount of lines: 68
- Average number of symbols per line: 47 (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; of, and, he, in are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words there's, and, o are repeated.
The author used the same word there at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word pimlico at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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