This is an analysis of the poem Antique that begins with:
Gracious son of Pan! Around your forehead
crowned with flowerets ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXa XXaXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010101110 10100 10101001 110111 1001111110 111110101 101011111 1110110110101 1101101011 11011111
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 212
- Average number of words per stanza: 35
- Amount of lines: 10
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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; your is repeated.
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