This is an analysis of the poem Sophist Leaving Syria that begins with:
Eminent sophist, now that you are leaving Syria
with plans to write a book about Antioch,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaaXbXXXXabX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 10010111110100 01010101101 01110010011 0101001000 0110010111 01101110010 100101110011 11110110 1111111101 11101010110101 101010011010110 1110111010110
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 526
- Average number of words per stanza: 101
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, as, in are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
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