This is an analysis of the poem Priest At The Serapeion that begins with:

My kind old father
whose love for me has always stayed the same...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXab XXXcbacX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,8,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11110 1111111101 1111110 1111011011 1011101000 011001111 010010 0111011101 110111111 11111110 10111100100010 1111100
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 207
  • Average number of words per stanza: 41
  • Amount of lines: 12
  • Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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