This is an analysis of the poem Erotikos Logos that begins with:

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Rose of fate, you looked for ways to wound us...

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  • Rhyme scheme: a bcde fcgX X hXdc hgHf fhic fhih jhac X Hbhf beic dedd Xdcj Xhac ceif febX faeh hfbb X fhhc ckfk cddh cffe khhX a jbgb ddXc cXdd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,4,1,4,4,4,4,4,1,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,1,4,4,4,4,4,1,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1 1011111011 1111010010001 1001110111100 111110101 001011010010 01101011 1011100011 01110010100 1 0100011010101 0100010010001 0100100100110 1111100101 1011010010 011101101111 11100001101 0001111100101 1101001101101010 1110010010010 111011001 011011101001 10111011001 100100101101 111001011 11100010001 100111111010 1011111010 11101111111 1100011101 1 11100001101 111010010010 11101101 111001111101 0111110011101 1110101101001111 11101101 001001001001 1101111101 110001011010 01010011010 111111110 01001011100 11110011 110010010101 1010101010 0111001101 0101010101 1110011001 0110101111 1110011010 0110101001 11110101101 1011101010101 011101000101010 111110101010 011100100100 11100011101 0101101111 101001001101001 1101101110 110101001011 00101110100 0101100100 0010110111 11000010001001 1 1101000110001010 111001001 1010101010 1011110111 100101010001 11011111010 1010010110010 10010010010 0101101001011 1010001011101 1001101010 01111 01110011010110 001001001001 1010101111 111001101001 0101011100100 0101001110 11010101 101000101110 1 1001011111101 110010001011 11001010101 1011001101010 1010101110100 1100101111100 1110101001110 1010101010011 10111001101 10101001001010 100111101010 100000101010
  • Amount of stanzas: 29
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 155
  • Average number of words per stanza: 28
  • Amount of lines: 105
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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; to, you, your, and, of, in, for are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, the, may, in, won't are repeated.

    The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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