This is an analysis of the poem Colonus' Praise that begins with:
Chorus. Come praise Colonus' horses, and come praise
The wine-dark of the wood's intricacies,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbcddcaaXXcbbceeffaXXaddbbaggX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 32,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 101110010111 0110011000 0100110111 01110101 1000110111 01010101 10001001 100101010 1100010101 0111010111 01001010100 100110101 1001100101 11000111 11011101 011110101 1100010111 1101010101 10110101010 110101010 10001110101 110101101 11010100 11010010010 0101010101 1101011111 1101110101 01010111 100010111010 0111011 10110111 010110001110
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1214
- Average number of words per stanza: 207
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (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; and, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, where are repeated.
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