This is an analysis of the poem The Second Hymn Of Callimachus. To Apollo that begins with:
Hah! how the laurel, great Apollo's tree,
And all the cavern shakes! Far off, far off, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbcdddecccfXcgbhidcjedbckXlmjXXXnibiacdcjXmdodnbkbobboikicpeXdoaXXnodohdmdcbdepjeboXddinnbbddbclXcqjdededbbeicXcXepnXpmidiiooXoXnacqoeigbdncjcdbXdnfXejje
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 154,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1101010101 1101011111 01101000101 0101011101 1010110101 01010111010 1101010111 11110011101 010101010100 0111011111 11010010101 01010101010 11110111100 10010101010 01110101010 11110100101 0101010101 01011101010 11010101010 1111010001 11010000101 1100110101 0101010101 11010100001 01111110 1010010101 1101011111 0101000111 101010101010 11010101011 0111010101 10101111 0101001101 11010100100 01010010110010 01111111010 0101011111 0101010101 0100010101 100110100011 01110110101 1101010101 11010100001 11010001010 11011101010 0111111100 010101010010 11010101110 0101010011 0101111101 0101010101 01010101010 01011111010 11010101001 010110101010 11110101010 0101111111 11010111010 0101111001 1110011001 01110101011 10111001010 1111111101 11111101010 11010101001 1101011000 10010101010 1100110100 11110100010 11011111010 0101110001 1001011101 11111001110 01010111010 11110110011 11110111110 1011011101 01011100010 101110011 01001100101 11010101010 0101000101 0101110001 11011101010 1100111110 10111100111 11111101010 11011100101 1011111110 111001100 11110101010 11001011010 110011111110 1001000101 11011111001 11011001001 11110111010 1101011 01010111010 0101001101 01110101001 010101001110 0100010111 1011010101 0111011000010 0100101101110 1100010101 01110010101 0101011111 0101000101 1101110011 011101111100 0101011001 11010111100 11011001010 0110100101 10010100010 11010101001 1101010111 01010101010 01010101010 1101010001 100111001110 110111001010 1111011111 01111101010 1111001100 01010101010 10010111 10010101010 11011011011 1011010101 111101001011 01111111010 1101110111 01110101010 001100101010 1100011101 10011100010 0100101001110 1101000101 01010101110 01111001101 10010101010 100011100101 11110010101 11011100010 1010101110 1101100101 1110001110 0100010101 01010100001 100101101010 1001011101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 6802
- Average number of words per stanza: 1115
- Amount of lines: 154
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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; their, and, power, his, by, where, should, thy, or, her are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, and are repeated.
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