This is an analysis of the poem Letter Of Mathios Paskalis that begins with:
The skyscrapers of New York will never know the coolness that comes down on Kifisia
but when I see the two cypress trees above your familiar church...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXa XbXX cdbc XcXX adaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 011001101010101111100 1111011010110101 00100011010010110 110101100101011011111101 1111010111011010110100 1101000110110110001010101010010 1011110101010111101010001101010 111010101010100010 01011101010010110101001001111 10110111110010 1111011010010100 111110100111100110 011110111101010110010101 010111011010101110010101101 00100010101011110101 111001110011111100110000 0101011111111110010011110101 10110111111011010010101010 101111010111000101001001101 0110101011010100
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 348
- Average number of words per stanza: 64
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 86 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 16
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, and, their, to, us are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word like is repeated.
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