This is an analysis of the poem The Displeasure Of Selefkidis that begins with:

Dimitrios Selefkidis was displeased
to learn that a Ptolemy...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abccdefgehgdgbhggabfggaeXXgfXXcX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 32,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 01001000101 0110100 11100010101 101111 10111101 110000101 01001 1000011 1100101101101 10 00101101 101011101 11010100111 11101010100 1101010 1100111111 110111 00101001000101 1101110100 10100100101 1010100101010 0101010 1111010111111 111000111 11001101 101010101 1101010111100 1001101101 10110010010100 1101001 101110100010 010010101010
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1193
  • Average number of words per stanza: 199
  • Amount of lines: 32
  • Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; they is repeated.

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

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  • summary of The Displeasure Of Selefkidis;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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