This is an analysis of the poem Fragment Of A Greek Tragedy that begins with:

CHORUS: O suitably-attired-in-leather-boots
Head of a traveller, wherefore seeking whom... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbcXbde fggagehaidijggkiffhf a X hbiebhXXakicXliXib X hagfXkhaXgalXlilfd X ijaggiXagifiif XhaddfiafXki
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,20,1,1,18,1,18,1,14,12,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: ballad stanza
  • Metre: 101100010101 100100100101 11111100111 00110000100 11000100001 1011000111 1111010111 1111010111 10110100101 101011110111 101001110101 100101010101 101101010111 100111110111 1011110101101 101111111101 100101010111 101111111101 101011001101 100111011101 1001110001110 101011010101 101111010101 101100010101 1111010110 1111010101 11010101 101100010111 10 1 01010 11110001001 111101 1101001 0001011111 10010 0111101 0101010 110101 1001010101 1101011101 01000100 1001010101 0101010 10001011101 11100 010100001 111101 100 11110 010010101 010101 110011 0100111111 01111 110101 0101010 010101 1111010101 1101111101 10100100 11100010110 1111010 1011010101 11010 1111010101 111101 10 1111101 100101001 0111101 11001001 01101001 01101101 10101101 100101 1101001 1110010101 10010 11010010111 10010 0100010101 100011111000101 1101110101 101111010101 0101011111 1001111100101 1111000111 101110010111 1101010101 1001101011101 1110010111 100101110101 1110100101
  • Amount of stanzas: 10
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 457
  • Average number of words per stanza: 62
  • Amount of lines: 94
  • Average number of symbols per line: 49 (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; to, not, you, and, why, in are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, nor are repeated.

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