This is an analysis of the poem One Of Their Gods that begins with:

When one of them passed through the market place
of Seleucia, toward the hour that night falls...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXaXbbbXXaXaXcXcXa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 19,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1100110101 010001010111 1011100101 001010100001 001011 01011111 11110100111 1010010100101011 11010010 11011101 1111010001 00011100010010 100101011 101101010100 11001010011 1110100110 11101010 110100010100 0010001101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 784
  • Average number of words per stanza: 142
  • Amount of lines: 19
  • Average number of symbols per line: 40 (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, and are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words with, and are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines him is repeated).

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