This is an analysis of the poem Bki:Xxviii Three Handfuls Of Earth that begins with:
You, my Archytas, philosopher, and measurer of land,
of the sea, of wide sands, are entombed ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabc dedd XXdf Xggf dhXX hdig hdiX jkicXbkej
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 111000100110001 001011101 0011011101001 1001101001 11101101001010 101001001 10010101101001 1100110010 101100110010100 110011010 111101000110101 1110101111 1011011110011100 0111100010 0101111011110111 1101101001 0100101101001101 010101010 010000110111010 1111110100 110111011010010 110010010 11011010101010100 101100111 111100111100010 11001001 10110110101001 0101010010 1010001001010011 0100001001 10111001001001 011101100 01011111100101 111101100 001111100100101 1101101011
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 198
- Average number of words per stanza: 36
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 49 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, to, and, s, from, you are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word death at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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