This is an analysis of the poem An American Addresses Philomela that begins with:
Procne, Philomela, and Itylus,
Your names are liquid, your improbable tale...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xaabb XXXXX cddcc Xeebb bffXb aggXa dhhdd giigg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110101100 11110101001 001000101000100 11110110100 01110011 110101011010000 01001001010 1110010010010110 11010100111000 1011100 01011010001 10010101001 11011110101 100100010001 0100001 1011110101 100100001010 110100111010 010001010101 00100001 110000010101 1001000010101 10001101101 10010100100 101100 11101011101 1001110100100 11010011011100 111110010100 0100011 100101110101 010101011101 11110101111 0101000101 11110001 101010101001 11010111010 110101011110 101100010011 110010001
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 208
- Average number of words per stanza: 35
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (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; i is repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines me is repeated).
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