This is an analysis of the poem The Sacrifice Of Iphigenia that begins with:
Now long and long from wintry Strymon blew
The weary, hungry, anchor-straining blasts, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababccdeedffcfcfcggchX gigihh gXgg jkjkll lleegXhchcbbXg lliihhXgfmfm
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 22,6,4,6,14,12,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1111010101 0101010101 01110010101 1101011101 11001010001 1101010101 1101110101 1100110111 10110100101 1101001101 010101111 110101111101 1101010101 10101010101 11011110101 10001010101 01011101 11100101 0111011111 1101010101 01110011111 010101111010110 1110001111 101100100110 010001000101 100100101010 01000101 10101001101 11010001 011100110 011100011 0101101101 01010100110 0101010 11010111110 100100011010 1101010101 1111010001 1111 01010101 11010101 1100111 011001001 1011010111 1101010111 01010001 10011010111 1010010111 1111110101 010101001 1100110100 1011010101 1111011011 1101110101 01010101 1010100 100101011 00100010001 11110100 1101010111 11010111 110010111 100101 100101010101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 2711
- Average number of words per stanza: 463
- Amount of lines: 69
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (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; to, her are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
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- summary of The Sacrifice Of Iphigenia;
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- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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