This is an analysis of the poem Cadmus And Harmonia that begins with:

Far, far from here,
The Adriatic breaks in a warm bay... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abaacadd cXadcdca cbXefgegfXdbdgaagbg
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,19,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1101 0101010011 01010100111 0110010101 11011001 01010111 101101010 11001111 111111111 1101010100 1001110111 0101010111 1111110101 1011010101 1001010011 1110100101 111110001001 11110101 0101000100 10111101 10111011 1011010011 0111110101 01101101 1101010101 11101111 0101101101 010111 1100010101 0110010111 11001101 1001111111 11110111 1101011011
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 361
  • Average number of words per stanza: 62
  • Amount of lines: 34
  • 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.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, nor are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word nor is repeated.

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