This is an analysis of the poem Myris: Alexandria, A.D. 340 that begins with:
When I heard the terrible news, that Myris was dead,
I went to his house, although I avoid...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabcddefgahafbXgbbgffcabahhhbhiiddahhgbXdigXXbhiXaaXjXckhijkedeajdighXc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 71,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1110100111011 1100111101 100010010 010010101010100 11001001101 01100101110 101000001111 0100011010 1110011 10010111 111010011010 11001011 1111001000100 11111101010 1001110110 1111111011 1110000101110 0100110101010 000111110 111111010 0101010 01111011000 1110101010010 10 0101111 0101100101 011001 11101 10001111 1001100010 1010011001001010 11011101010 1000101 11111101011 111010110 10100101101 1100101001010 1101100101 1101100001110 1111001 01101001 1101010010 1111011 11110100100 110101 1101010101 111101110100 1111000010 1101101101111 1110100101 110101001010 101001100 1001101010110 1 010101010 10111 110011100 110101 1010101010010 1011010100 1100110101101 1000011 101001001 11110101010 001101111010 010010101101 011101110011110 1111001001 111011001 101011100010 1010100101110100
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 2797
- Average number of words per stanza: 505
- Amount of lines: 71
- 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; i, and, stranger are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word a is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines forever is repeated).
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