This is an analysis of the poem The Shade Of Theseus - Ancient Greek Tradition that begins with:
Know ye not when our dead
From sleep to battle sprung?... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcccc CDCD aeaeafaf CDCD gdgdcfcf CDCD hihiafafXCDCD
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,4,8,4,8,4,13,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111111 010101 1010101 11100101 1010101 1111110 1100101 10101010 110101 110111 110101 111101 1110101 111111 1010111 1010101 0010111 00111001 1010111 1111101 110101 110111 110101 111101 011101 1010101 1010101 011111 011101 110101 1011111 1010101 110101 110111 110101 111101 110101 00100111 10111001 1010101 1010111 1010101 1010101 1010101 110101 110111 110101 111101
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 183
- Average number of words per stanza: 33
- Amount of lines: 48
- 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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; when is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words when, and are repeated.
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