This is an analysis of the poem Kleitos' Illness that begins with:
Kleitos, a likeable young man,
about twenty-three years old...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcdXedXbfgcfbageXeXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 21,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10010011 0110101 00111010011001 01000111010 1101001010100 0101101011100 1010101010110 11101101 1100011010110010 11101111 0101011101 10010 101011011010 111101111101 0010010101110 01 11001110111110 1100010101111010 1010011111010 10101101101011 100101111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 924
- Average number of words per stanza: 163
- Amount of lines: 21
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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; she, and are repeated.
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