This is an analysis of the poem Medea In Athens that begins with:

Dead is he? Yes, our stranger guest said dead--
said it by noonday, when it seemed a thing ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcdefaXghii fgjgkfXcdil mb gnhcoaXp ac mnfn imdohgknaog gkaihghXh X hcqorigpaaaXXXc XXeXoahgo aXspahggijXX hrgacirdinX cigfatcgccfcgaX ngfgtca ch dXa pkXa tmdims qjufgs hXjsismaiiricjpl pcjidg bqsadau gdXshhqcrr dniaXaqglaii eairgcigmgghgpaiglrfgca
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,11,2,8,2,4,11,9,1,15,9,12,11,15,7,2,3,4,6,6,16,6,7,10,12,32,16,8,14,16,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1011110111 1011010101 1100110100 1001110101 11011100110 1111111011 10111111101 10110101010 1011011011 0111011101 1101111111 0111001101 1111010101 1101110101 1100010011 1101010101 1101111101 1101010101 0111010110 11000101001 1111000101 1011001101 1111 101101 11110 11111 1011110101 11011111001 11011001001 1101011100 1011010111 10111101001 10101111111 1101001101 01100 10101 1100011111 0111110111 0101 101101 0011101111 1111100101 1111010100 0111010101 0111011101 1101110101 0110010011 01011010001 1101010100 1001011100 1111011101 1011011101 1101111101 1011010101 10010111011 11011101101 1101110101 1100011000 10101010111 11111010010110101101001111 1111100100 10101110111 1111110101 11001010100 0111110100 1111011101 1111111111 11011011011 1101110111 1001111011 0101010111 1101111110 110101101110 1111110110 1101110101 11111111101 1110111000 11011101000 1010111110 11110101100 10011000101 110110110011 0111010101 1111010100 1101011101 0100010100 1101010101 1100111101 0101111111 111111101 1101001111 1010010101 1111111101 1111010101 10101111100 100 11111101 10111010101 0101110111 0111010011 10111111001 11010111101 1111010110 1111010111 1101111111 01001111111 11100101010 101101011101 0101111001 1100110111 1011011101 10101011111 101111101010 111111100 1001010011 1011011111 1111111111 1011111111 1011111011 11110000101 1111000010111 1010100110100 11111100001 110010010101 1111010101 11011011111 1100101010010 11100101100 10101 111101 01001010101 101101011001 11111001000 11110 11111 0111011111 100010101110 110101101 010 10011101001 01110111011 1001011111 111010110001 1001 111101 11111011101 1011001101 01010010101 0101011101 111111 1110 1101111111 1010111101 1001101101 1011100101 0101111101 1001111011 1111011001 1101110101 100110101 110111101 1011010111 1111111101 1111011101 11011101010 1101111101 11010111010 0101010101 1011111011 0111011101 0101001101 110100 0101 00110110011 1111111111 1111110111 0001111111 1111010101 11110100101 1101110101 1101110101 11111010000 1101001111 1101111011 1010010101 1101111111 1001001111 01010111111 10111101 11 10111111111 1011011101 1111111111 1101111111 0101110101 1111111101 0101010111 0101111001 111111111 111111111 1111111 1110 1010101011001 01001111111 0111010011 1011110100 10111100011 0110110101 11011110101 1101011111 01001010101 0111000101 0011010001 01110001110 1111110111 1111110001 1110011101 0100110111 1111010111 0101011111 01111100111 1101010101 001110111001 0111011111 100011111110 1111011111 101110100111 01010100111 0111011101 1101110111 1101111011 1111011011 1111011111 10100011001 1101010111 1111011101 1101110101 1101111101 11111101101 1101011111 1000111001 1110000111 1011011111 1011110101 1101111101 1011000111 1101011111 1111111101 11110 11111 0111011111 1111110101 0011011111 110111001 1111011111 1101110001 111101 1111 1100010111 1111101001 1001111101 1101101111 0111111101 0110111111 0111011111 111111101110 11011011111 1111010111 1111110101 11110010101 1011011010010 1111111101 1111101111 0101110101 11111101010 1011010101 1010111111 1101011101 1101010101 011101001010 1011110101 1111110111 10 11111011 1111111011 1111110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 33
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 377
  • Average number of words per stanza: 71
  • Amount of lines: 290
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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; and, it, know, i, all, her, me, she, fly, ruined, he, thou, for, to, have, not, thy, my, thee, turn, years, of, from are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, it, no, he, , of, the, to, never, here are repeated.

    The author used the same words and, dost 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 , me, him, pain, love, more are repeated).

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The words/phrases , forgotten, near, i connect the lines.

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