This is an analysis of the poem The Aquittal Of Phryne that begins with:
When Athens challenged Phryne to confess
Eleusis' self sufficed not to appal... full text
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbaabbXbcbXcb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 110101001 1001011010 001011100111 0101011001 1001011001 1011110111 0111010101 1001010100 1101010101 1101011101 1111011101 1011011111 1111001101 1111010001
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 613
- Average number of words per stanza: 106
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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; of, your are repeated.
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