This is an analysis of the poem On The Picture Of Two Dolphins In A Fountayne that begins with:
These dolphins twisting each on either side
For joy leapt upp, and gazing there abide;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeeXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1101011101 1111110101 1011010111 10010101001 1100110001 1001010111 1101110111 1111111101 1101011100 11010101110 1101111100 1101110011
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 521
- Average number of words per stanza: 94
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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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