This is an analysis of the poem For Some Poems By Matthew Arnold that begins with:

Sweeping the chords of Hellas with firm hand,
He wakes lost echoes from song's classic shore, ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbaabbX cdecde
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,6,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Metre: 1001010011 1111001101 1111010111 0101110001 1111110001 0101110101 0101011101 10010101100 1101111101 1101010101 110111111 11110100101 1011010101 1101000101
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 314
  • Average number of words per stanza: 55
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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 is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words of, for are repeated.

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