This is an analysis of the poem Athena that begins with:
Folded arms and sauntering pace
Come not nigh this holy place....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbbbcc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10111001 1110101 1110101 101101 1100101 1010101 1010011 1010101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 235
- Average number of words per stanza: 40
- Amount of lines: 8
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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