This is an analysis of the poem Kyrenaikos that begins with:
Lay me where soft Cyrene rambles down
In grove and garden to the sapphire sea; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcdXecXec
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: Shakespearean sonnet
- Metre: 111110101 01110001001 1101010101 1101111101 1011010111 1101100111 0101011101 1011011101 1101110001 1111110001 0101010001 11111111000 00101000111 1001110101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 622
- Average number of words per stanza: 104
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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 is repeated.
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