This is an analysis of the poem Following The Recipe Of Ancient Syrio-Greek Magicians that begins with:

Said an aesthete: "What distillation from magic herbs
can I find—what distillation, following the recipe...

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  • Rhyme scheme: abaXaXXX bXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11101010100101 111110101000100 01010100010 1011011110010 1011011010110 11011 1101110101 01001 110101000100 01010100010101 01110110001011 1001011100
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 256
  • Average number of words per stanza: 45
  • Amount of lines: 12
  • 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; of is repeated.

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