This is an analysis of the poem Song Of The Greek Amazon that begins with:
I buckle to my slender side
The pistol and the scimitar,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXabacac dbdbeaea bfbfgcgc gagahfhX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11001101 01010100 101101011 11010101 110111001 11011101 11000101 11100101 110001001 11111101 11110111 11010111 11110111 01110101 01111101 11011101 11111101 010100101 11100101 11011111 11111100 11011101 110110101 11010101 11010101 11010101 11110101 11110101 01011101 11010101 010111111 10110100
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 276
- Average number of words per stanza: 55
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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; and, my are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
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