This is an analysis of the poem Judith Of Bethulia that begins with:

Beautiful as the flying legend of some leopard
She had not chosen yet her captain, nor Prince ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbaXc bddbee fggfaa hiihjj ajjadd keekXd Xbddbfc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,7,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1001010100110 11110101011 010100011101 01001000110010 111100100010 1110111 1111010111100 111110100010 00100101000110 1011010100100 111001010010010 10000110 1011101110010 100001110001 0100100110001 110011011010 1001110101 010101 1100101111110 1110101000010 111100111010 100100011010 1100011011101 110101 1110111111001 101001101001010 110010110100010 1011101011101 1110110010111010 11001010 01011100100110 110100101110 111111001010 1010101010110 001101001001000 10101010 1111011001001 0010110100110 10101011111010 1010110101001 01101001000010 11101101
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 296
  • Average number of words per stanza: 52
  • Amount of lines: 47
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • 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; of, from, their, and, his are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.

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