This is an analysis of the poem Of Coloured Glass that begins with:
I am very moved by one detail
in the coronation at Vlachernai of John Kantakuzinos...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXXabbaXXbccXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 111011101 00101011000110000 1100100100010 01111001101 101010010101 11101011001001 111111 100101010101 0110100101 1010011 010101 0010100010101 100110101 01100111111 11101001110000 010100100100010
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 643
- Average number of words per stanza: 108
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (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; of is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines have is repeated).
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