This is an analysis of the poem Song Of Proserpine While Gathering Flowers On The Plain Of Enna that begins with:
Sacred Goddess, Mother Earth,
Thou from whose immortal bosom... full text
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- Rhyme scheme: ababCX dedeCX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010101 10101010 1111111 11111110 11100101 1111100 0010101 11101110 1110111 10100010 11100101 1111100
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 209
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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; and is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word proserpine at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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