This is an analysis of the poem Phaethon--Attempted In Galliambic Measure that begins with:
At the coming up of Phoebus the all-luminous charioteer,
Double-visaged stand the mountains in imperial multitudes,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabcdefXgaXheiijXaghfggjXklXhmagXggjkbXlggkhjjnfaXocaX ogcpXlmabnhaadfababbobXgiahfahlXhb plbXghoXbXcXojjapfnikX XnXaXiomXlqrfbabaXcbkfhgbkqapdhoXXamjajbaXar XmmgX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 54,34,22,44,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010101001100100 10100101000100101 1011101101111010 111010111010100 1 00101101010101101 1010101100101101 1010101010101000 001000110110101 1110111010101100 001010110010110 1010101010101010 1011101010100100 1110101010100111 10101010101111 01 1111111111111000 101011101010110 100 1010111010101100 1110111110110101 1100101010101010 1010111110110100 1010101010111001 10101001110110000 1010101110110100 10101010100011100 10110111110110 100 10101110010100 100 10111011101001 10 1010101110100100 10101011101001 01 111010101100100 110101000100100 101011110100100 1 10000101010110100 111111111111 10101 0010011010100100 11010100111111111 1 1011101011101 100 1011101110100101 1010101111110000 1110111011010010 11101110011011 10 11011111110101000 1010101000101000 1010001000100100 10110010011011 01 1010101110101000 101010101010101 11111010101000 100 10101010110100001 1010111000100101 1010101101110100 101011010011100 1011 111110101000101 1010010111011010 1 101110111011010 1 1010101110101100 1010101100100101 0011001000101010 1010101110100101 10101010101001000 1010101111100100 101010110011010 1 1111111100110 100 101010111101010 0011111010100100 101001101101001001 1011101110111001 1010101010101100 1010101010100111 1011101000100101 11100010110101011 1010101011010101 100011001000100100 1010101010100101 0111001010110100 1010101110110100 101110100100000 1011101011000100 1111101010101100 1010101010111111 0011101110101000 11101110011111000 0111110010100100 10100111100111 100 1010101101100100 10111110101000100 1011111011110101 1111101101100100 1 101010111010110 1010101100100100 101001011011 10000 10101001110101001 10101010101100000 11101010100111 0010101011001000 01110011111100 100 101110111011010 10 1010101010110101 1010010110010010100 1010111100100100 10 10100101010110100 1 1010101010110100 110101010100101 1010010101010101 0 101001001011110 100 1010101000100101 1010001110100101 1010001110100101 10111010101010 11 1110001010100101 001001001110101001 0011111110110 100 10101111010111000 1010010011101000 101 101010101110110 1 101010101010100100 1010111101111 0101 1011011110101101 111001010100110000 10010101000100101 1010101000100011 1010001010101001 1010101100110100 1111111010100 100 1010101010110100
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 2040
- Average number of words per stanza: 353
- Amount of lines: 160
- Average number of symbols per line: 50 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, to, his, as, oath, and, i, never, lo, in are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word lo is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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