This is an analysis of the poem Metamorphosis Viii, 611-724 that begins with:

Baucis and Philemon
THUS Achelous ends: his audience hear...

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  • Rhyme scheme: a bbaaccdXeeaaddeeaaffffcceeffeeebbbbbggeebbfffcceebXccccaaffffhhaabbddffggfffeXecXaaiiXeffaaeedXbbbeeeeeaaeeaaffbbffeejjccggeeffXbkkkeeffcceedXddfXXXllccccbbkkcceeaaeXffaammddbXjjffaaeeeekkeeccXdccXbX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,199,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 101010 1100101001 0101010101 010101101 1111010101 11001011101 10101111101 11011101001 01111111100 0101011101 0101010101 11011101001 1101010001 10101001111 010101010101 11011101001 1101010101 1101010101 1011010101 1101101101 010011100100 1101010101 0110010100 1101011001 0101011100 1101010101 1101010101 1101010111 1101010111 1111100111 0101011101 1101110101 1101010111 1111010101 1101110111 0101110011 1111010001 1101110101 1101110101 0111110111 1101010101 0101010101 1101010101 0111010101 0101011101 0101010101 11011100101 1101010101 1101111101 0100011101 0101111101 01111101010 01110100111 1001010101 0111011101 1111010101 01011110101 1101010101 11010010101 0011011101 1101011101 1111010111 11001010101 0101010001 1001010101 1101110111 1011000101 1111011101 0001110101 0101110101 01010101011 1100011101 0111110101 1101010101 0101010111 0111001111 1100110111 0101010101 1001010101 1011010011 1111011111 1101111100 0011010101 01011010111 0101000111 0111010101 1101010101 1101010101 11010010101 0101110101 1001011101 0101010111 0101010101 0101110101 0101010101 0101001100 1111010101 1111110101 11010101101 1101010101 1101110101 010001010101 0101010011 0101110101 1101110101 1001011101 1001010101 1001010101 1101010111 0101110101 0101110001 1100011101 0101011101 1101101101 1111110101 01001010101 1101110101 1001010101 1011110101 0101011101 0110110101 01011001001 1101011111 1101000101 1011101101 1011110101 0101010101 0110110101 1111111101 0101111101 1111111101 01001011101 1001110111 0001010101 1111110101 1101011101 1111010100 1101000111 1101010111 1001010101 1101111101 1101110011 110101100 1101010101 0111011101 11100100101 0111110011 1111110110 0101110110 1101110001 1101110101 1111111001 1001010101 0101010101 1101101101 1001011101 1101110111 1101110111 100101011101 0101010101 0100110101 0101010101 010101011101 11010010101 11010110101 1111010101 0001010101 0111010101 0101011101 1101011101 1101110101 1111010011 1001000101 11110011101 0101110101 1101010111 1101000100 0101111111 00110110101 11110111101 1101010101 1100110101 10010101001 1101110101 1101010101 1111010101 1101000101 11001011101 1111111101 1111110111 1111001110101 11110101 0101110101 010001010 1111011101 1111010111 1101110101 1101010101 0011110101 11110111010100
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 4437
  • Average number of words per stanza: 783
  • Amount of lines: 200
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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; and, with, she, they, of, their, old, at, once are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words she, the, and, their, at are repeated.

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  • summary of Metamorphosis Viii, 611-724;
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  • idea of the verse;
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