This is an analysis of the poem Geotheos that begins with:
As sweet as the look of a lover
Saluting the eyes of a maid... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbabb XbbXbb cccccc accacc XddXdd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111010010 01001001 11001101 0100010010 01101001 11001101 111110111 11111011 01001001 1101101100 11101101 01011101 110010010 11001001 101011001 0010011010 11001001 01001011 111110110 01001001 11111001 110110010 11001011 01001001 010111110 11001101 101001111 0011010110 1000101 10100101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 212
- Average number of words per stanza: 41
- Amount of lines: 34
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; as, of, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words sing, and are repeated.
The author used the same word sing at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines maid, gold, seas, palms, wine are repeated).
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- summary of Geotheos;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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