This is an analysis of the poem Before A Statue Of Achilles that begins with:
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Behoild Pelides with his yellow hair,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a bXcbbcXbbddbbd X effeeffegbghbh X diiddXidajjkak
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,14,1,14,1,14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1 1010000101 1101010101 0101000101 0101110101 1111110111 1001011101 1111010101 1001010101 1101110101 1111010101 0101111111 1101011101 1111010101 0111010011 1 1111010101 011010111 1001110101 1101001101 0101001111 0101010111 0111001101 1001101111 1100011101 11011010111 1101110101 1101110101 0101010111 0101011101 1 111111001 1100011111 1111010101 1101000101 0101110101 1101001101 0101011111 0101111101 0101010111 0111010011 1011011111 1011010111 0101110101 001100101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 292
- Average number of words per stanza: 54
- Amount of lines: 45
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (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, and, thy, in are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words he, a, the are repeated.
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