This is an analysis of the poem Hero And Leander. The Fifth Sestiad that begins with:
Now was bright Hero weary of the day,
Thought an Olympiad in Leander's stay.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
The information we provided is prepared by means of a special computer program. Use the criteria sheet to understand greatest poems or improve your poetry analysis essay.
- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeeffggbbahcciibbffjjeeXdbbcckkllaaddbbddddddiibmmmnnhabbbbccXjcckkmmbXbbkkcccXbbjj X mmmmddccddeeccffaXmmffccXckkccccdXccooaaeejjccllmmccmXddiiiicciijjddaaddbbmmaajjahffffbbbXccbbbbmmaammfXbbbbnnccnnppmmiiccllhaaaddddbbaaiiddeeccXbddjjmmccbbXeccc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 90,1,336,1,12,8,12,14,8,16,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1111010001 1101010101 11011101101 11111101001 1101010101 0011010101 1101011111 1111111111 0111011101 0101010101 0101011101 0101010111 1111110101 0101011101 1011001101 11001110101 1101011101 11110101010 11001010101 11000101001 0101010101 1001000101 0011011111 1101111101 1010010101 10110100111 1101010101 1101010101 0101011101 1101010101 1001010100 11101111 1101111101 1101110101 110110011 0011111101 01001011101 0100010011 1011010100 0111010100 00101101001 111101011001 1101010111 10010101101 11000101010 01111101010 1111010101 1001001101 1011010111 11011110101 11110101010 1100111101 1100100101 11010101001 0101111100 010101111 1101110101 110110101 1111110101 1101010111 0111010100 0101000101 0111001101 1101110011 1101011101 1001010011 11000010111 0111011011 0101010110 1111011111 1101010101 0100010101 10001100111 1101010111 0011010101 1011010100 0101000111 110101110 111001100100 1101011111 11010101001 1100111111 1101010001 1101010111 1011011101 1101011110 11010100111 1111010011 11010011101 1101010101 01010 1011010101 1101011001 0101011101 1101100111 11001000111 1111001001 0111010001 1111011101 1101011101 0101011111 0101000101 1101010101 10101010101 1101010101 10110110101 1101110100 0101101001 1101011100 1100010111 1111010101 1111111101 0101011101 11011100101 1101010101 11010111100 01110101010 1111111111 1111011101 1100111111 0101010101 011010010101 0101010101 0011001001 0100111000 1111010111 1111110111 1010001101 1111111111 1011010101 010011111 0101111101 11010101101 1101001111 1101110001 01010101110 100101010010 00110011010 11001111010 0101111111 1111010101 1011000101 0011110101 1101010101 1001010100 11010111001 110110010101 1101011101 1001011101 10010111011 11111101011 010101101 1101010101 1101011100 1101111011 0101110111 110101011 11001110101 1011111101 0101111111 1101000101 11010100111 0101111011 0111010101 1011101101 1001011101 0111010001 0101010101 01001010111 1011011101 10010101001 1101010001 1101100100 01110001010 00010111010 010101110 1100010111 1111110111 11010100101 10110110101 1101001101 1101011101 11011100111 1111111101 0001010101 1011110101 1101111111 11110011011 1001010001 1111110111 1101111111 1111010101 10001010111 1111010111 0101111011 1111001101 1101000111 11110101001 1101010101 1101011111 10101010101 1101110101 110011101001 11001000101 1001011101 0101010011 1111010111 1001010111 1111110101 01110111111 11111101111 0111111101 0011110101 11110101010 101010011010 110100101010 1111011101 0101110101 10010011001 110101010010 110011111110 1111010111 1001010111 1101010101 0101011101 0100001111 10101010100 1111010101 1101010101 1001110100 0101111101 1101011011 0001010101 0101110101 0001111111 01010100101 01110010101 11010100101 0101011101 1001010111 1101000101 110110101001 10111011101 0100011101 1001011111 1001011101 0110101101 01110101010 1111110101 01011100101 10010010100 1111011101 1111011101 0111000100 111011110 1111110101 1100010011 1111000101 0101111101 1001110100 0101110100 1001010101 0111010101 001100111 1101010011 0101010101 1101111111 0101001100 0101011111 1101011011 1001011111 1101110011 1101011010 1011010001 1101011101 0001010111 1101010101 0101010101 0101101100 0110011101 1101111111 11001010101 10011001011 1001011010 10111011100 1100100111 1111000111 0100010111 11011101101 0111010101 1001110101 10111101011 11011100101 01011011101 1101101101 1111110111 1011010101 1101001111 1101011111 1111011111 1101010111 1001010100 1100110101 0101110101 0101010101 01011001101 11111001001 0101011101 1011110101 1111000101 10110010101 1100010100 0111010101 0101110001 1011010101 1111011111 1101110101 0101110101 1101010100 0011010101 1111010100 0101010101 0101100101 0110010101 0101010111 10110100110 10111001010 1100111111 1101011101 10100111100 11001010100 1011011101 11101011100 0111010101 0101110101 1111010101 1101110111 0011110100 11110111111 1111001111 01001010101 0101010101 01001110101 0101010101 01001100101 11011101000 1110100101 1101010111 1011100101 1011010101 1001000101 1101100111 0011110101 0011010101 0100011101 1110100111 0101011101 0101010111 0111011101 01011101010 110110111010 1010001001010 110010101110 1011111111 1101110101 1101010101 1101110101 1110010101 0111000111 1101110101 1011110111 1011010001 01010100101 11010111010 11000100010 01101010000 01010100010 1101110101 01010110111 1101010101 1011011101 101111101 1101001101 1001011101 0100010111 0101011001 0101010001 0101110101 110010100101 01011100101 1001000101 0101010101 1010011111 1011110101 0101010001 11100010101 0100011101 01111110010 11011101010 1101010101 01010101001 1111000101 110010100101 11011100101 0101110101 11110100101 1101110101 0101011101 1101011101 0101010101 1100100111 1001010001 1101010100101 1111111111 1011100101 1111010001 1111111101 0101110101 1011011101 1111110001 1011011111 10000110100 11010010011 11010101010 1111000101 0111010111 0101010101 10000100 111111010 11000101 010100010 11010101 11110111 110101010 0110001 110101010 1101 1001 1011 0101 11111101 110011001 1111101 11001101 1101 1001 1011 0101 11110101 01010011 01010011 11011101 101101 11000101 101011111 11111101011 1101 1001 1011 0101 010111 110101 110101 110100 1111111101 1011011101 10010101100 00101111101 1111110111 1101110101 1111011101 1111100011 1101001101 1111111101 1101110101 1101010011 1111011101 1001001101 1101101111 1101111111 1101001101 1111111101 110100101111 0101110101 1101011001 1111011001 0101110101 01001111101 1100011101 0101010101 1011010001 1011011101 1101011101 110101001000 1101010101 1111011101 1101111001 11010110101
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 2146
- Average number of words per stanza: 384
- Amount of lines: 500
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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; she, to, and, his, her, of, in, so, he, him, sight, their, it, with, come, your are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words to, and, the, a, in, this, rise are repeated.
The author used the same word come at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines him, it, her, thee are repeated).
The poet repeated the same words arms, rise at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase rise connects the lines.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of Hero And Leander. The Fifth Sestiad;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
Good luck in your poetry interpretation practice!
Pay attention: the program cannot take into account all the numerous nuances of poetic technique while analyzing. We make no warranties of any kind, express or implied, about the completeness, accuracy, reliability and suitability with respect to the information.
