This is an analysis of the poem At Delphi that begins with:

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Apollo! Apollo! Apollo!... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aB XccddddeXaaffB XbXggaXeeeeddffXhiiiiaaB XjJdXcckkhhaXddllmmXXXkccb aeehXddccXnnkXooBbhhkkmmmX aaXeejjiinneemXmmkkmmhhB XccddddffeeaaiiddddhhnnggddkkjjhhjjiiX XBbffaajjnXggjjmmX XggjJffeeeb nffaaddggcchXeeooffcccX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,14,24,26,26,24,38,18,11,23,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1 010010010 1 1110101 1110111 101010010 10111010 10101010 101001110 1011101 11010 11101111 11111101 10101111 11111111 010010010 1 11101010 10111110 001101 1011111 1111111 101010 1110111 101101 01101010 11101010 100111010 00101010 01101001 1010101 1010111 1011100 01101110 11111010 100111010 11111110 11111011 11111011 010010010 1 10101010 10111010 110101010 11101110 0010001 0010001 0010001 0010100 10111010 01100110 1010100 1001100 00111010 10101110 1010101 1110101 10101010 111010110 10101110 10101010 1010010 110001010 1011011 1011011 010010 1 1110101 0011101 11101010 1010111 101101 1010100 1110111 0011001 01110110 11101010 1011010 10111010 1011101 10111010 11111010 11110010 10111110 11101010 11111010 10111010 00111010 11110110 10101110 01101110 010010100 1 1111100 101110 1111101 1001101 1011101 100101 10001110 10111110 0110011 1011111 10110011 1010101 101001010 10101100 10111010 00111010 10100101 1110101 1010101 1101111 11111110 11111110 010010010 1 1011101 1010111 1010111 0010101 00101110 100101010 1010101 1110101 1010101 1010011 1110101 1010111 10101110 11101010 00100111 1010001 001001010 10101010 10110010 11110010 10000111 10100101 1011101 1111101 1010101 0110101 1111001 1010100 1011011 0110101 10101110 00101010 10101001 10100101 10111010 11101010 010010100 1 11110010 11111110 0011111 0010001 1100111 1010101 1010101 1111101 1111011 111110 11011010 11101110 10010101 1111101 10111010 10101110 010010100 1 1011111 1110011 10101010 10111010 1010101 0010001 1010101 0010001 1111111 010 1 1110011 1010111 1010111 1000101 0011101 1010101 1010111 1011101 10011101 10100100 11101010 10101110 101101 1101101 1111111 1010011 1010101 1011101 1010101 1110111 1111101 010010100
  • Amount of stanzas: 10
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 616
  • Average number of words per stanza: 107
  • Amount of lines: 206
  • Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; apollo, thee, of, this, and, me, there are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words o, in, there are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines thee, it are repeated).

    The poet repeated the same words apollo, '' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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