This is an analysis of the poem Two Idylls From Bion The Smyrnean that begins with:
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Once a fowler, young and artless,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a XbXbaa XcdcXe dadaeX XfXfaa dadaaX X gegeheh ijijkjk aaaaXaj glgljlj
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,6,6,6,6,6,1,7,7,7,7,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1 10101110 0010111 10111110 0010101 110011001 1010001 11101110 1011101 10101010 1010111 1010101 1110101 10000110 1010001 10100010 01100111 1011101 0110101 10111110 1010001 11111110 1111101 1110011 0110111 11111110 1110111 10101110 1010101 1110111 1111101 1 11100110 1011101 10101110 1010101 1111011 1011101 1110001 00101110 1010101 00101010 00100101 1010101 1010111 1011101 11111101 1110101 10100011 0010101 11100100 1011001 01100111 11001110 1111101 10111010 1110101 1111111 1011111 1111101
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 161
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- Amount of lines: 60
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; love, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ' is repeated).
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