This is an analysis of the poem Saturday Night In The Parthenon that begins with:

Tiny green birds skate over the surface of the room.
A naked girl prepares a basin with steaming water,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XabcbbdefgchXbcdbbddeebXXgiijXcdXbXeXdkkckXhlXfjbcmhabibmXgbbbXXXjXbdlXaclkbibkakccbm
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 85,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1011110010001 01010101001010 1001001001011 01110100101 100110010010110 1010100010111 1010100101111 0110010111010 0101001101001101 1101001001101001 0101011110010 0101001 01110001011 10100101 1001000101 0101001 01000110111001 010101011 111011 01010101001001 1001010110 01011101100101 010111111 11010101111 1110101010010 1101001001 10100010001 101011010001 10110010101 0110010101 111010010010 110101001001 0110101010 11001010 111010011 010101110100010 11110101011 1101010101 00111010101001 010100010010111 101101010 0101001011001010 111111001000101 10100010001 010101001011 0101110101 01101010101 00101101 110111010101 111010001010 1001100111101 110101001100101 11000101001010 101100111011 010111011011 1010110101 11000100101 011001010 10111 10010111010 011010010 110001011 10011101010 010010011010 011011100101 11111 01001011010 11010101 01010101 1010100010101 1100011101 011100010 01010010001 0111111011 11010010001 10111 101011011 1111100010 110010111 1101101010 0100101111 1001110101010 01011101 10110101001 10101010001101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 3846
  • Average number of words per stanza: 687
  • Amount of lines: 85
  • Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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, to are repeated.

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

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ' is repeated).

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  • summary of Saturday Night In The Parthenon;
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  • history of its creation;
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