This is an analysis of the poem Byron Among The Ruins Of Greece that begins with:
On what sweet shore the blue AEgean laves,
Where loveliness is wedded to decay, - ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xabaacacc adeddfdff bgbggcgcc ghghhahaa hchcchXhh iaieacacc jXjbbcbcc cdcddadae kckcccccc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 11110101010 11000010001 1001010101 0101011101 0011000101 1001110101 11111011001 1111010101 100101110101 01010000101 11001010101 1101010100 1101000111 0101110101 1101110101 1101010101 1110010101 111001011101 11010100110 1111110111 11010001010 1111011011 01011101001 1110000111 1001010011 11100010101 1001001101101 110010111010 1101001111 11010101110 1000110101 0101110101 0010011111 1101011101 1111101111 1100101010001 0101110101 1111011101 1111010101 111101001001 1001001000101 1101011001 0100010110 01010010101 11101001010001 11001010101 01010100101 11110100101 0101010100 1111110101 1100010101 1101110101 1100100100101 010101011101 1111010101 101010101010 1101010101 0100111101 1011010101 1111110011 1101100101 0111011101 11001111101 0101111111 1111111111 0111111001 1101110111 1101010001 1101111111 1011101101 1101110101 101110010100 11001011111 010100101 1011010011 11010010101 0101011111 111101011 0101011111 1101111101 010100010101
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 424
- Average number of words per stanza: 71
- Amount of lines: 81
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (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; her, and, their, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase again connects the lines.
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