This is an analysis of the poem The Scythians that begins with:

You are but millions. Our unnumbered nations
Are as the sands upon the sounding shore....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abab cdad abab aeae fbfb agag fXfh iaia dede jeje kXka lala amam elel lnln dddd hdhd XhehXlclb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 111101100010 1101010101 110101101110 1011011111 111100101010 11010001101 11010110110 11010100101 11011101010 1001010001 01010111010 0111010101 11001111101 1111110011 11000111111 1111010101 01011111101 1110010101 1101011101 11111101001 1101011101 1101011111 1101110011 1101110001 11010101010 1101110101 11110101010 0111011101 1111010111 1101011101 1110010111 111101111001 11110100001 010101001010 01010111001 101100111010 1101000101 1101010101 0101000101 01010110001 1111010101 1101001101 1101101111 1001110101 1111010101 0100010101 1101011101 1101010111 1111111101 1101011100 1111111111 1111010100 1011111111 1111010011 1101010111 11110010101 1101010101 11010100111 1001110111 1111111111 01001011101 11011101111 1101111111 1101000101 1101111111 1101010101 1111011101 0101010101 11111010101 100100010101 1100011101 1111110101 1101011011 111001001110 0111011011 110100001001
  • Amount of stanzas: 19
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 176
  • Average number of words per stanza: 32
  • Amount of lines: 79
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; for, and, love, fire, of, in, we, to are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, we, and are repeated.

    The author used the same word we at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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