This is an analysis of the poem Orophernis that begins with:
The figure on this four drachma coin
who seems to have a smile on his face...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AbbX XbXc bdecfcaga XXXdhhcga XbX bXXXaXfXXag ggbX AaedX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,9,9,3,11,4,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010101101 110101101 01001001 01001000101000 01111101000 100101010 111011010 00010101100 11100101 1100101000011 110110010100 001101011 101011001 00101000011 0100101010 1101100101 0101011 1010100101000 1111 10110010010 1100101001111 100101110 10001010 01011000101 11100010101100 11101011101 01000101101 111010100101000100 1110101001110 11110101 1010010101 101011010100 1111101000 111010001001 11110100 10111110011 101011 101101 11011001 11110001111 011100101110001 1101001100 1101010010 1011100 010101101 1001111101 010001010 01001001101 001000101000
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 234
- Average number of words per stanza: 42
- Amount of lines: 49
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (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; his, he, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words he, this are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines face is repeated).
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- summary of Orophernis;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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