This is an analysis of the poem Bkiii:Iv Temper Power With Wisdom that begins with:

O royal Calliope, come from heaven,
and play a lengthy melody on the flute,...

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  • Rhyme scheme: Xaba cdef bXbg gXga gehg gXgX icXf jfgj ghXX jhgX aegk cbbh jgab kXXX ajeX digX ajeb bghb bcaiXjaga
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11001011010 11010100101 101011111 1110101001 11101111010 10111110101 101011010 1011010101 01111110101 01010100100 0100111100 0101101011 11010010111 100011110 111010111 0110100111 1001100110 01010101010 101100101 10110010001 11011101011 1110101110 001010011 1010100001 0101101011 10100101010 101111100 11100001001 01011011010 10101010010 010000101 0010011010 11010010010 0101110101 110101010 1011001001 01110111010 011011110 010101010 1110001010 11101110101 10101111010 101110010 0111010001 11110101010 10101010010 010010010 0100110101 11011001100 111110010001 110101101 101100010 1110110101 1101011100 00100110 1100001010 00101010111 10010111110 101010010 1010100010 11010100101 1010110101 01001111 010110010 10011011011 01010110010 111111001 1000011100 1101010010 01100101111 1101011 1010001010 11010101001 11101111010 101010101 10111101011 10101101010 001001011001 100111101 101001001
  • Amount of stanzas: 20
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 161
  • Average number of words per stanza: 29
  • Amount of lines: 80
  • Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, and, s, or, who are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word or is repeated.

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