This is an analysis of the poem Of Dimitrios Sotir that begins with:
Everything he'd hoped for turned out wrong.
He'd seen himself doing great things,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcdcefgbbecXbbebahcchifiXdiXhiceXXXhghjcjgXiiX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 47,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101111111 11011011 100010101110101 1010100010 101101000100101 001001 0110001 110010110 11100101 11001100 10101110001010 01101 011001000 111101001111 0100110101100 11111011011101100 001001001110 1101101010 010110000111 1101011001010 11111111101101 01110101010001 10100010100 110101 10100 1110010 10000100 1111111010 1100101011 1001111100 1101011011000 10100101010 0110111 11 101110 10101101 010001000101010 101101010 0101011010 111111 10011010 11011011111 110010 1101010100010 01101110100 01000111000010 010000101011000
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1862
- Average number of words per stanza: 329
- Amount of lines: 47
- 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; her, of, he, would, and, in are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words he, as, this are repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase now connects the lines.
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- summary of Of Dimitrios Sotir;
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