This is an analysis of the poem Bki:Xxxvii Cleopatra that begins with:

Now’s the time for drinking deep, and now’s the time
to beat the earth with unfettered feet, the time...

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabc XbXd bXef bega XXgX fedg aXdc XbdX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10111011101 01010010101 011011010 111010101 01101010101 01001010101 1010011110 01001010010 00101001010 10101110001 011101010 11010101010 11001010101 11001001011 11001011 0100111101 10101101010 10101100101 101101001 1001010100 11010010110 11101001101 101100101 0010101101 11101101010 00111101001 010111111 1110001001 10101101001 10001010110 1110101011 11001010110
  • Amount of stanzas: 8
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 169
  • Average number of words per stanza: 31
  • Amount of lines: 32
  • Average number of symbols per line: 41 (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; time, with, to are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words to, with are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines time is repeated).

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