This is an analysis of the poem Solon that begins with:
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The Tyrant passed, and friendlier was his eye... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a ababccdcddc X efefggeheeh X XcgcXigagga X gagaggjijji a khkhhhbhbbh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,11,1,11,1,11,1,11,1,11,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1 01011100101 1011010111 1111010101 1111010101 1011110101 01000100111 0110111101 0110010101 0111010011 1111110101 1111010101 1 1100011101 0101011111 1111010111 1111110111 11001100001 1111111110 1111001101 1101011111 010100111 1101110001 01001001101 1 110010101010 0011010101 1101010101 0101011101 101010100 1101010101 1111010001 11010011101 0101100111 0101010101 1101010111 1 1101110111 1101110111 0111011101 1111000101 0111010101 1100110011 0101110101 1111110001 1101010101 1100011001 1111010101 1 11010010011 1101011110 01010100101 1101010101 0100011101 0100010101 1101110111 1010011101 1111110101 1110011111 0101010111
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 237
- Average number of words per stanza: 43
- Amount of lines: 60
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word for is repeated.
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- summary of Solon;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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