This is an analysis of the poem Phoebus Apollo that begins with:

Hear us, Phoebus Apollo, who are shorn of contempt and pride,
Humbled and crushed in a world gone wrong since the smoke on thine altars died;... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbaaccdD eeddffccdD ggaahhiidD hhjjddeedD kkaacceXdD
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,10,10,10,10,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 111001011100111 10110011110111101 1110010100101 111111010101101 111110110101111 11100110101111101 010110101101101 1111110101101101 11110101101001 11100101101101 11011101010101 111110100101111 1010111100101 11010010011010111 010010100101111 10010010100101 011010100100101 010010100100101 100110101110101 11100101101101 1110111001111110 10110101100111 11100101101101 1111001011000101 1101101011100101 10111011011110111 0110101101100111 1010111101100111 10011101011101 11100101101101 11100011000111001011 1010110100100101 1111010101111 010110100100111 11010100100101 0110010101011101 010110101100101 11011101110111 1011110001101111 11100101101101 1101110101111 1011010100101 111100101101101 1010110100011111 11101001011100111 101110101110101 010010111101111 11100100101101 010110101010101 11100101101101
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 637
  • Average number of words per stanza: 120
  • Amount of lines: 50
  • Average number of symbols per line: 63 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 12
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, and, our, that, some, we, to are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word some is repeated.

    The poet repeated the same word again at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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