This is an analysis of the poem Song From Judith 3 that begins with:

BALKIS was in her marble town,
And shadow over the world came down. ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeeddfghhbXgfiijjkkaakkbbaaddiiaallbbXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 46,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10100101 111100111 10011011 11110101 10101101 11011101 10000101 01010001 1010101 1001101 11010101 1010011 10010100 00100110 0010010010 111101010 11000111 1010100 1011111 01010100 11011001 0011011100 1011100 01011101 11010111 00110111 11111001 1000100001 10110111 1110101 01110101 1011111 101101001 11111101 01100101 01000100 01011101 11110100 100110101 0111011 01110011 01000101 011100111 11111101 01110111 111010100
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1669
  • Average number of words per stanza: 295
  • Amount of lines: 46
  • Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, my are repeated.

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

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