This is an analysis of the poem A Greek Island that begins with:
Traveling over your body I found
The failing olive and the cajoling flute,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXaXX XabbXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1001011011 01010100101 11111001 11011 001 00100101 111000111 010000011 1110001 1111 1100001011 0011010001
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 184
- Average number of words per stanza: 38
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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