This is an analysis of the poem Sonnets Of Old Egypt that begins with:
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Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a b cddccddceccecc X X cffccffcgehgeh X X Xccffccfcbbcbb X d dffddXfdiajiaj a X affXaffahbchbc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,1,14,1,1,14,1,1,14,1,1,14,1,1,14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1 01 010101111001 11011101101 1101010101 1110000101 010111101011 111111101001 11010011111 11011100101 11110111001 1111000101 0111010101 11110010101 100010010111 01010001001 1 1000100101 01001110101 1101110101 1101010001 11010100101 1101010101 0111011101 1101010111 01010010011 1101111101 01010101001 1111110111 0101110100 1101110111 11001011101 1 10 0101000101 10101100101 11110000101 0111010111 1101110101 1001011101 11011100101 1011010100 0101011111 0101111001 10001011100 1101011101 10101001101 1111110101 1 1 1101010101 1101110101 10001111101 1101110111 0100101111 0101010100 110111010101 01010100101 1110011101 1101011111 11110001001 1111011101 0101111101 0111101001 1 10 1111110111 1011011111 11010011100 01001001101 1100100111 11001110011 0101001111 11110101001 1101000101 01110101001 01011010111 11110110001 1101010111 1001010001
- Amount of stanzas: 15
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 206
- Average number of words per stanza: 38
- Amount of lines: 80
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (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; he, and, that, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, and, o are repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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