This is an analysis of the poem Fragments - Lines 0005 - 0010 that begins with:
Lord Phoibos, when the goddess, lady Leto, bore you,
Clasping a palm tree in her slender hands,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1101010101011 1001100101 1011000010010111 110101011 0101010111 101100010101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 305
- Average number of words per stanza: 52
- Amount of lines: 6
- Average number of symbols per line: 50 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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