This is an analysis of the poem Lepanto that begins with:
White founts falling in the Courts of the sun,
And the Soldan of Byzantium is smiling as they run; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccdeccccaa bbffggbbhHbbiibbejkKe hHiiiiggXeeg aaeeffbXbbllaammllnXhHjkKX nnllaaiiooXeccjkKc ppaaaaeeppbbjjKX pphhedppcXXiggaaffaaqqiied XkKeXnnaabb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,21,12,26,18,16,26,11,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1110001001 101000100010111 101010100110111 0101010010001 0101110010001 101010101010001 111010101010100 111010101010001 101110101110011 11010100110101 011010010001 0110001010101 01011000110101 101010101010001 111000111 11010101010111 11000101111001 011010110001 011100101010111 1111010110111 0101010101101 11010101010001 111010111 110100010001 111000111 00111000111 10101010101 101010101010111 111000111 10001010100101 100111010101 110101 110100 110100 010001 10000101010101 110100010001 11010101010101 01010100011101 11011101110001 111010111010101 101110100010101 1101100110101 101010 1010111 110100101 110011 11011100011001 001010101111101 11011100011001 11011101110100 10011101011101 1001010010001 110100110011001 11011101110010 1111010101010111 11011101110101 1101101111101 11111101011001 111010100111101 01010101100011 101000100010111 01111100110001 001111100011111 001000100010101 001110101110101 111101111101010 11111011111 110100010001 101101 100100 110100 011100 11010100011001 110100011101 10111010111 10111110111 11010101110101 01011100010101 01010101111101 11010100010101 11010100010101 11010111010101 11010101110101 1110100010001 11101011001 1000100010001 1011011 101100 110100 010001 11000100010101 110100010101 01110101011111 11011100110110 1101011110101 11010101110101 101010100010111 11001101110001 1100011010101 11101001100101 111010111 1011100010001 10111111 101101 110100 110100 01100100111101 110100010001 0101011111101 01010101111101 11100101010111 01000101110100 11111111011101 1101101010011 101011100011101 1010111010100001 10101110101001100 101010101010001 111111110010101 01100101110011 1110101011101101 010111000100101 110011100010101 101011101010001 111010101111101 1110100110101 11100010101 1010101010101 1010101010101 1000101110001 1000101111101 1111111111100 10100 101100 110100 110101 01010101011001 110100110001 111010101010101 11011101110101 111111101110101 1110100110001
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 887
- Average number of words per stanza: 153
- Amount of lines: 143
- Average number of symbols per line: 55 (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; of, and, in, then, he, sea, they, that, it, christian, trumpet, like, for are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words it, they, and, the, where, he, gun are repeated.
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- summary of Lepanto;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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