This is an analysis of the poem On Landor's 'Hellenics' that begins with:
Come hither, who grow cloyed to surfeiting
With lyric draughts o'ersweet, from rills that rise... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabXXabaXXaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 11011100100 01011000111 1101110101 01010001001 1011010100 01001001101 1101110111 11001010101 10010000101 11100111101 1001011111 1001001101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 511
- Average number of words per stanza: 84
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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