This is an analysis of the poem Bkii:Iv Loving A Servant Girl that begins with:

Phocian Xanthis, don’t be ashamed of love
for your serving-girl. Once before, Briseis...

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXbc bdbe bfXX gXfc ceaf gddX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1010100101 1110110110 0101001111 10010 110100100010 01011010100 11011001101 10101 10010010010 01100101010 1010010100 11001 1111110110 11101111101 10110011110 10111 01101111111 00101011110 1010110010 01010 11100100111 11010011010 01110100111 01001
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 150
  • Average number of words per stanza: 27
  • Amount of lines: 24
  • 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.

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