This is an analysis of the poem Ii. Mycenae that begins with:

I have seen in the night
the sharp peak of the mountain, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcbccccad deeaeadd XdfaghebhXgba XXfabddaXee dh X
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,8,13,11,2,1,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111001 0110010 1010110 0010101001 11011 1110 1111101 01011 01010 11 101010011 11111111110 11111111110 1111 101111 101111 011111 11 11111111 0101101 01010010 0100100 010000110 10 00010010 110001 10100110 00101 1111010 10100101010 11 101001101 10110110 10001100010 10010111 010 101000010 00101101 11101 1111111110 01 100001111 110010011 110111110 0101
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 216
  • Average number of words per stanza: 39
  • Amount of lines: 45
  • Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; my, from, to are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i've, from are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines able, soul are repeated).

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  • summary of Ii. Mycenae;
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  • history of its creation;
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