This is an analysis of the poem Epigram Ii: Kissing Helena that begins with:
From the Greek of Plato.
Kissing Helena, together... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X XaaXaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 001010 10100010 01111010 101111110 101111010 010101110 110101010
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 117
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 7
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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; my is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines it is repeated).
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