This is an analysis of the poem Metamorphoses: Book The Twelfth that begins with:

PRIAM, to whom the story was unknown,
As dead, deplor'd his metamorphos'd son:...

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  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 869,1,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
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  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 27034
  • Average number of words per stanza: 3337
  • Amount of lines: 875
  • Average number of symbols per line: 61 (very long 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, in, of, and, or, to, he, what, her, as, she, with, from, it, thy, so, i, side, they, man, lives are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words a, the, and, cygnus, what, to, or, his, so, then, nor, are repeated.

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

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase connects the lines.

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  • summary of Metamorphoses: Book The Twelfth;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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