This is an analysis of the poem The Last Banquet Of Antony And Cleopatra that begins with:

Thy foes had girt thee with their dead array,
O stately Alexandra! - yet the sound... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababcbcbdd bebebfbfgg hdhdiaijii ekekkaljmm hmhmiaiaii bbbbelelaX iaijihihee idXdbibiaa babadndnaa XbkbbbbbaX inindhdhikff bcbcbibigg eaeXaoaoaX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,12,10,10,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1111101101 1101010101 0111010101 1011010101 10111010101 0110000111 1101000101 01011100101 101001010101 110101110101 111111001001 10101110101 1101011101 010101001 1101010101 110100101001 1110010001 1011010111 1101011111 1011011100101 1111011101 1101010101 0111010101 0101000101 0111110111 0111010111 01010101101 10110110100 11010000101 110101110111 011111101 1111011101 110010100110 1101111001 1101111101 0101000111 100100010010 1101010100 0101010011 111111010101 1101110111 1101010111 0101010101 10110011101 1100010111 01001011001 1111010101 11110011101 0101010101 0101010101001 1110011111 0101011101 0111000101 01010110001 0100101011001 01000111010 0101010111 1001100100010 1011001101 10101100011000 1111010101 010010101101 1101011101 00110100100 1100011101 010101001001 0111010101 1111010101 11011100001 110001110001 1011011101 10010101101 0010010101 0101000101 1111010001 1101010111 1101110101 1101100101 10110111010 0101101110111 1101000101 1111010101 01001110101 1101010001 10110100111 11110100101 1111110101 1101100011 11010110111 101101011111 11110100110 11000101001 1101011101 1111011101 01110100011 1100110111 1001000101 1101010101 1101010001 010101111111 01010110101 01010110111 01010011101 01110100101 11110101001 0101000111 11010011101 1111010001 1111001 1 01 110101010111 11001111101 01001011101 0101010101 1011010111 11010011101 01010100101 0111110111 0101011101 11010010101 101101111001 1111011101 110100101111 10110101001 1001010100 1001011101 1101001101 11001110101 0101010101 1101110001 111101111011
  • Amount of stanzas: 13
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 448
  • Average number of words per stanza: 78
  • Amount of lines: 132
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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; that, thy, not, o'er, of, and are repeated.

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

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