This is an analysis of the poem The Decree Of Athena that begins with:
Hear ye my statute, men of Attica--
Ye who of bloodshed judge this primal cause;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabcbdXeeXfXaXXceXbeeabdaXfdaaf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 31,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1111010100 1101110101 1101011101 0101010001 011010111 1111010111 101101110100 0101000100 011010111 010101000 1111010111 1111110101 1001110111 0101111110 01001011101 1100110101 0110110100 1101001101 11111001101 1101010100 0101111101 0110011101 1111010011 1001010101 0101100111 10011001111 0101010001 0101001101 1111010111 0101010101 1101011101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1298
- Average number of words per stanza: 227
- Amount of lines: 31
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (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; this, of, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word a is repeated.
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