This is an analysis of the poem Come, O King Of The Lacedaimonians that begins with:

Kratisiklia didn't deign to allow
the people to see her weeping and grieving:...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abXbXXcXdXXadXXbcXX cX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 19,2,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1000101001 01001010110 1101001010 0110110 001010100 1101101011011 01110101001110100 1101001010 111001 1011100111 11101100110100100 101100101 010010010010 1010010110010000 11111 1111110 10100101010010 110010110 110100010010 11100110011101100 10010
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 448
  • Average number of words per stanza: 75
  • Amount of lines: 21
  • 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; she, her, in are repeated.

    The poet repeated the same word gods at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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