This is an analysis of the poem The Origin Of The Peloponnesian War that begins with:
DICAEOPOLIS
Be not surprised, most excellent spectators,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X abacdX eeaXfggfX ccdXbhdffgXaaaXaXg aaXXddfhXXXcdabbbbb bdbXah
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,6,9,18,19,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1000 01011100100 0111010101 011100011010 10001001100 00100101010 1101001111 0111111111 111100111 11010100110 100010100 1111110101 110010111010 1101101111 0101011101 01110010101 11010101010 111100100100 110001100011 11110101111 11010111110 1011110111 1111010110 11001110011 1100011111 1101010101 1101010101 010101010100 11011100110 110010100010 010101001010 10110111010 010001010100 0111110101 11111101010 1101110101 11110010100 010010010100 0101010101 0101010101 01100101010 1010010001 11011001110 11001101001 0101010100 0101110100 0101010101 1101111101 01010101010 10100101010 010011101010 011111100010 10011111110 1010010111 010010001001 10011101110 01010100110 11111111001 1101111101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 416
- Average number of words per stanza: 72
- Amount of lines: 59
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- 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; and, as, people, for, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words no, and are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines megara is repeated).
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