This is an analysis of the poem Tolometh that begins with:
In billow-lost Posedonis
I was the black god of the abyss:...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXaab aacddc eeXXXc ffaeXa eeeggeXffebbe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,13,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01011000 110110001 11100100 01110101 11110111 10010100 01001101 11010011 11011101 11011101 11010101 01010101 01110101 11010101 10010100 11000110 11111100 10111100 01110111 11010111 11011101 11110100 010011100 01000111 11011101 01110101 11111100 110010111 11011101 11010100 11011001 11011111 11101101 011101010 010101010 11111101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 199
- Average number of words per stanza: 36
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- 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; their, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, and are repeated.
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