This is an analysis of the poem In A Township Of Asia Minor that begins with:
The news about the outcome of the sea-battle at Actium
was of course unexpected....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabacdXcXe dccfXXfXcbcXcXe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,15,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010101100110110 1011010 11111101011010 01010111001 10001010101001010 001001010 110000100 11011001010 010011000 01111010 100110010 1000101010 0100001001010 11010101001 110010 1111010101001001010 010011101 0010010001 110010110 100100100101 110010101 11111001011 0011001111 0011001000100 11001100011100
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 539
- Average number of words per stanza: 85
- Amount of lines: 25
- 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; in is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words who, in are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines triumph is repeated).
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