This is an analysis of the poem The Sicilian Captive that begins with:
The champions had come from their fields of war,
Over the crests of the billows far,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccdd eeff ffgg bbhh eeii bbjj ddbb cckk hhff ddddjjkk lldm hheeaa ggbbjj ddbbdm hhiieX aXccXggii
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,8,4,6,6,6,6,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 01001101101 100100101 11110100101 10111001101 1111110111 10100110111 011100111 101011001111 011100101 1100110101 1010110111 1100110111 10111001001 1110010101 1010110101 1100101101 101100101 101110101 1010101101 1101010001 101100101 1100101101 1011110101 100100111 1011110101 100101101101 111100111 10100101101 110100101 0011110101 110100101 110111101 110100101 1101001001 101001111001 10100100101 110100111 100101111 10100101011 10111100111 11110111110101 111100111010101 11111111010111 0010101100111111001 11111101010101 010101010011001 110101110010101 11010111110111 11111101010101 101010101110101 11110011111101 111101110011100 1111001111111001 01010100001011 00011111111101 110101101111101 11010111110101 11010101010111 11110111011111 010101000010111 11010111111101 110010101010101 01011101010001 10100111000010101 11110111011111 110101010101001 110101011100101 11000101110101 11111101000101 110111011100100 111110000111101 01110101110101 110101100010101 10110111111101 01010010011111 010101110111110 101110101 11011001110 10111001001 101110101 1011110101 0101100101 11110100111 011100101
- Amount of stanzas: 18
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 249
- Average number of words per stanza: 47
- Amount of lines: 84
- Average number of symbols per line: 53 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; had, of, her, thy, my, and, that, in are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words thy, and, they are repeated.
The author used the same word 'and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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