This is an analysis of the poem Bki:Xxxi A Prayer To Apollo that begins with:
What is the poet’s request to Apollo?
What does he pray for as he pours out the wine...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xabc XdXX cbXc dXXa XXXX
- 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: 10010010010 11111111101 001110110 0010100101 10100110100 1110110100 11110101 1001001001 1111001101 0010011110 111100101 111001001 11001111110 01001001001 111101100 1101001001 00101101111 11001011111 111110110 1111001001
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 158
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word what is repeated.
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