This is an analysis of the poem Great Zimbabwe (Southern Rhodesia) that begins with:
Who were the builders of Great Zimbabwe?
No man knows . . ....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aBbXcdccBccbcecffdghdgh aFfbieiaFjjaffkdkd hllhchchcc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 23,18,10,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1001001010 111 101 1101010 1111 10111 11111 111 111 101101 00111 10001000 0011 1001001 1001 1011011 1111 1011110 11110 101101 111010 01001110 1111 1001001010 1111 1100101 111100 0111 111111 0101 01110110 1111 10100101 1111 011010 111001 1001101 10111 010111 10110111 1101111 101011 0011 01010100101 1101 10101 10011001001001 1001111 101010001 1011010111 10110101111
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 454
- Average number of words per stanza: 83
- Amount of lines: 51
- Average number of symbols per line: 26 (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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, empty, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, empty are repeated.
The author used the same word who at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Great Zimbabwe (Southern Rhodesia);
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