This is an analysis of the poem If It's Modern It's Right that begins with:
By the Mediterranean shore,
In the days of the cohorts and legions,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdeeddX fcfcXbffbdX cgcgbhiihdX ibibXbjjbdX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 11,11,11,11,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101001001 0010010110 11001101 10011010010 101011001 1010010110 11011 101001 1011011010 111001101011 1100101001 101011101 111010110 101101011 1010111010 11011011 100110010 01001 111011 1110010010 111001101011 11111101011 11111011 1010010110 101011101 1011010110 111111001 1110110110 1110011 111011 1111011010 111001101011 101101111101 111001101 1011111010 111011001 010010010 11111111 1010011110 110011 11101 1010111010 111011110101 10110010101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 425
- Average number of words per stanza: 78
- Amount of lines: 44
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (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 is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same word but at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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