This is an analysis of the poem Far-Darting Apollo that begins with:
I saw the sun step like a gentleman
Dressed in black and proud as sin....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaa bbcc XXcc aadd eeaa ccff ddgg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 1101110100 1011111 110110110 101111000010 011101110 010100110 100100011 011010011 011100010010 00100110101100 0111001010 0100010110010 011010101 11101010 00100100101 1011100011 01101001 1011101011 110110000010 00101010 1011101 1011101 1101001101 1010111 010110101 01010101 1111110011 10100101
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 153
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (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; his, of, in, games, my are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words his, the 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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