This is an analysis of the poem Written For My Son, And Spoken By Him, At A Public Examination For Victors. that begins with:
To you, Athenians, we again submit;
Reward, or punish us, as you think fit....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbcccc ddaaeeffaa Xghiddgg ddcc bb jj hibbaabbccgg eeggeejjaakkgghhggXaaddaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,10,8,4,2,2,12,25,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 01010010101 0111011111 1100100101 1100010101 000100101 1111000101 0101110101 1101110101 11110101010 11010001010 1011010101 1100010101 1111011101 11010001101 10010101001 0100110011 11010010101 11001010101 1101110100 1101010011 0101111110 0101010100 1001100101 0101011101 1111010101 110101001 10010101010 11010101010 1101011101 1111110101 0111010111 1101110001 11110001001 1111010111 11001101100 0101010100 11010111001 0111010011 10100101001 1011010001 0101010101 0101010101 1101001101 1111010101 1101010101 0101010101 110011111001 1100011101 1101001111 1111011101 01001110101 1101110001 1101010101 1111110001 0111010101 0101010101 1011110011 01010100011 1101010111 0001010001 1111011101 11010010111 01010101010 11111101010 1111010101 1111000101 11111100101 1111001101 0101010101 11110000101
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 334
- Average number of words per stanza: 57
- Amount of lines: 70
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; to, and, his, thy are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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