This is an analysis of the poem Eudoxia. Second Picture that begins with:

O DEAREST my sister, my sister who sits by the hearth,
With lids softly drooping, or lifted up saintly and calm, ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbabXX cddcdee XffXfXe
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,7,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 11011011011101 01101011011011 01111011011111 11111011011001 111010010101101 1010110110111001 11111111111011 1100110110110011 101011010001011 11001011111101 100001111101101 11011011111011 10001011011101 11111011001111 1111011011011 0101100110001001 11011111011001 111110100011010 110101111101011 11111011001111 11011001001111
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 429
  • Average number of words per stanza: 76
  • Amount of lines: 21
  • Average number of symbols per line: 60 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 11
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, for, or, give, to are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word with is repeated.

    The author used the same word o at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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