This is an analysis of the poem Angkor that begins with:

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Out of the Forest into a terrible splendour... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXbcd efgh ccif bijk iiic lcma fmim gkni ckfm kfcX bcob lnXh egba ccfm kgXf gbke efjg Xifmi jcfi jbjm akXg flcc bbkc jjXk iXcc jebX hXbc XcXce hjkf Xgeg Xbhc bfjk ficb gbjb hmcm XhbX Xmbg gmhf hheb igXc Xbmid gbig Xfef cifg XXkn kgXb mkbb ikmk cojh mff
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,5,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,5,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,5,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,5,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1 1001000010010 010100001010 1100101010 010100010101 11001010101 10101000100 1001000100011 101001101 100011001001 001011001010 1110100101 111001001010 1101001010100 0101100100100 010100100100 10010000101 111101010100 10110001010 010010100111 1001010001 10100101001 1011000101010 001101100100 11010010101 0100101100110 10001101000010 01010001010101 0101001010010 010100100101 1010011010010 101010100101 101100010001 1100100001010 10010010000100 100110100010 1011001010 1000111000100 01010010100001 1000101001010 101000101010 01101011010 100110101010 010010101000 01101110001 11100001101 10110110101 010100110100 001000110101010 010010101010 1001010110001 101100101 1001011101 0101011001010 01110100010 100101000100 101000100010 11100111100 100110100010 1111101110 100101110100 0101010001010 1001010101001 011001010010 101100000101 0110100110 100010100010 10111000100 101011101001 1 1001001111011 1010110110 010010111010 1111010101 1100101011100 10011101010 10001011010 1101000101 110101000100 100110100101 11010001000100 111101001010 0010110101111 10110001010 00100101011100 10001010101 11010111010 00011010111 1010011010 001101001010 0110011110 101010101010 10001001000100 111110111 1110110110 001001011000100 010100100010 10010110001 11111110100 101100101010 101100001010 1010010001 0100010100110 110100101001 10110100101 01001010101 101100110111 110010100100 10101000110 010100100001 1 1001001110100 1001001010100 10011101011 100100100010 10001101000100 1010001001010100 10000101110110 1011011110010 1010111111000 111011010101 110010001010100 110001000100001 01101001001010 01001100101101 1101101111010 110001110001 100111110100 10010100101010 11100101010010 111010011001 01100101010001 01011110010010 101110011010 1011110110101 1010010111 0010010101101 110110010010100 1010100110101 1010101011000100 1100010001001110 01000101011010 1010100001110 1001101011010 010011001110 1010101011110 0100010101101 100110011000 101111001001110 1011111101110 11010111110 11100100111101 0100001001010 0111001001010 010100111010 101101001010 1011111100100 100110100010 110100100111 0010100101010 01111111101 11000100100010 1010010010001 1 1010010011 100101001010 1110010010010 010111001011 10010101010101 11000100101110 010100010001100 0101001101 1010100101000 010100100110 1010010010100 100100100001 1111001001010 0101010010010 10110010010010 010010100101 0111001001000 001001100100110 11111010000100 0010100100110 1111110100 1010111001 1100111110 101011010011 1010010110010 10001010010010 011101010001 1000101010100 1101001000101 101111011010 010101000100 11001010111 11101001110 0110100101111 11001001010100 110010101001 100011010010010 1001001001010 101010010010 1101100111 1101001010010 001010010010010 010100100110 1101010001 1 10010100101 11010001011 10010001010 1001010001010 11110100110 01110100011 01010100101 0111000101 11010100101 1011101000100 111100100110 10011100011 10110110010 101100101010 100101100010 00010111010 11110100101 1011011000100 1011011110 101101010001 111110100011 10000100110100 100100010010 1111101011 110101001100 01010101001 100100101100 01110101101 111110101001 1000110010010 10011001100 11011110111 10110001010 1001000100010 10100101101 1001000111 110101111010 100100101001 1101010010010 0100011010001 10101011010111 011100100001 101100000100110 01001010010010 1000101001010 01010100111 100011110010 1000100010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 63
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 187
  • Average number of words per stanza: 32
  • Amount of lines: 261
  • Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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; of, to, desire, and, boughs, her, his, he, in are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words desire, of, and, or, as, all are repeated.

    The author used the same words the, solomon, or at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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

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  • summary of Angkor;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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