This is an analysis of the poem The Bride Of The Greek Isle that begins with:
Fear! I'm a Greek, and how should I fear death?
A slave, and wherefore should I dread my freedom?... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabX ccccbb ddeeffgghhaa ddeeii ccffggeejjffkkjjhh f ebebdldl bmbmdldl ejejblbl jgjgelel ccnnaahhdmgg nnaabboo Xbbbbhhbbmmbbhhee bb kkeebbbXbbhh ddjjbbee nnccbb hhgghXbbll ddeeoo Xjjffddjjggccbbhhlliijjffjj hhdm ggffaaiiccddhhggeebb ddjjjjffhh bbddeeXjjb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,6,12,6,18,1,8,8,8,8,12,8,17,2,12,8,6,10,6,27,4,20,10,13,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1001111111 011100111110 1011010 10000 1001001010 10110101010 101111101 1111100101 1110101111 0100100101 101100101 110110101 110101001 110110101 10111100101 100100101 1001110111 11101010111 1010010101 10110101111 1100110101 00111100101 1110110101 1110100101 11100101101 1010110111 110010111 110010101 11011101 100100100 101110111 1011100101 1110110111 110111101 100110101 10111010101 111010101 101110101 11110101 001100101 011001101 101010100 110010111 010100111 1010101111 0010100101 0111 11110101 1101011 01011101 0101101 01010111 1111011 11110111 111111 11110111 11001010 10100100101 11101110 11111111 010101 10111011 110111 111101011 111101 0010110101 110101 10110111 110111 111011111 111111 10111111 101111 111110101 1100111 11111011 111111 01111101 110111 11011111 010100101 1111101001 00101101001 110110101 0011100111 0010110111 1100100101 101101111 11001011010 101101101 1100100101 1110100101 1111110101 111101011101 101101001001 1111101101 0100110101 11110101101 1110100111 1 11110111 00100100101 00111100111 10001011001 1011111011 0100100111 100111101 100110101 10100011010 1011101010 100100101 110101111 1100100101 11010100101 00101101101 111101101 110101101 1010111101 1100101001 011100101 010110101 110100111 111100101 11001011001 01110101110 101110011000 0111100111 010110101 1111111101 0110100101 1011111 1010001 1001111 1011101 110101101 011100101 101101101 11011111 0100100101 0100100101 10010101 1010101101 1110101111 1010110101 0100101111 111100101 00100100101 10111001001 10100100101 110111100 1110110111 110010101 100100111 110100101 1110100101 011101111 1100100111 11011000101 1010110101 110100111 1 1010111 1010101 111011 1010111 10011101 1010101 1110101 10101001 1010101 0010111 1010101 0011101 1100101 10101101 0011101 11010101 11010101 110110101 101010101 10011101 101100111 1001100111 1010100101 10110101 11111101 11001011001 0101101101 100100111 11101000101 1001110110 1111100011 110111101 111110111 10100101101 111101101 011100101 01101101001 1110100101 0110111101 01001001001 0110011101 11000100101 1111101101 0010110111 0101100111 0100101111 0110100111 101110101 0101101101 101100101 1011110111 110111111 1010100101 0101010101 1010110101 110100101 110111101 01111001001 101111110 0110111101 1011111001 10100010101 10100101101 1010010111 1101101101 00111101001 110110111 1000111101 0101101001 10111101011 10110110101 1011010111
- Amount of stanzas: 25
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 373
- Average number of words per stanza: 70
- Amount of lines: 234
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
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; i, her, in, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words come, she, the, ye, and, bring are repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word weep at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of The Bride Of The Greek Isle;
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- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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