This is an analysis of the poem Bkiv:Vi To Apollo that begins with:

God, whom Niobe’s children encountered, O
you, avenger of boastful words on Tityos...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXbc debf egXh fiej ikkl kehk blaX mhdk eklh jdceXmbkg
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1110100101 10100101110 010110101 11110 101010110111 11110101110 1101001010 00101 10111101001 10101111001 11010011101 00101 1111001001 1101011100 10111010011 100010 11111100100 11111001010 01010000100 11001 0100101011 11010101100 11010100101 01010 10010110010 1011110101 0101010101 1010 10111010101 11010101010 11011111111 01010 1010101010 11100111110 10010101010 01101 11001010010 100101000101 01000111010 00111 10111101011 11110100100 11111110010 01001
  • Amount of stanzas: 11
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 153
  • Average number of words per stanza: 28
  • Amount of lines: 44
  • Average number of symbols per line: 37 (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; of is repeated.

    The author used the same word phoebus at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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