This is an analysis of the poem Eleusinia that begins with:

The sun-bronzed Arabs, living at the base
Of Karnak's mighty ruin, see in it... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcdefbfbeaghib ajfkjalbfXmblm nXaXlmkjbj XfXmmfXmbbniaaXokjbkj XjgfbkXkjkakjj dhmeknmhheXcabkdholXfkXbedkbfcbna
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 15,14,10,21,14,33,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 0111010101 0101010100 0101111101 0101010101 1101010001 1001010111 1111111101 1101111101 0101011100 01010010101 0111000100 1101001101 1101000100 0101001101 110001 1100 1101011111 0101001111 11100001000 00100100100 1101011101 0101010101 100101001 100101001 010101010 110101111 1111010001 010100100101 01010010101 1101010111 01010001101 1101110100 01010101100 1101011101 1101001100 1100100100 111010111 1101011011 1001010001 0111011101 1101010111 0101000100 1111110111 0101000101 1101010101 1101010110 0101010100 0101010001 1101010001 1101000111 1101010001 1101000111 0111000100 1100100111 0101001101 0100010011 0101100100 0100010100 1100011101 110101000 100 01010101011 010000111 0100010111 1001010101 1111000100 1001010110 1111011101 0111000101 1001010101 1101111011 0111010011 11010101001 1101010 1010 0011110100 0100010101 011001010 1101010101 1001010001 01010001001 0101011100 11011100100 1111110100 0101001000 0100010101 0100100001 1011110011 0101011100 11010000101 1101001100 1001000101 1101010101 110101010010 1011110101 0101010 101 0101011001 010011101 1101010001 1011011101 1101010011 1101110001 1001010011 0101111011 1001110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 568
  • Average number of words per stanza: 99
  • Amount of lines: 106
  • Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • 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, for are repeated.

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