This is an analysis of the poem Mediterranean Verses that begins with:
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The desert sand at day's swift flight... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbcc ddee cccc ffcX gghh ddii bbdd bbhh jjcc iiff kkdd Xkkhh cccc Xcbb llaX ficc ccXb kkmm aadd Xccff nnkk ffbb jjgg Xidd iiii cccc bbcc Xbbcc ddgg kkff oojj bbbb bbaa hhnn ddjj ffff affXc bbbb ddkk ggaX fXXb hhbb gggg ffkk ddXcXmmoo
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,5,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,5,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,5,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,5,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1 01011111 10011101 111111 111111 11011101 11010001 110101 1100101 11011101 011100101 0101001 101101 11011101 11010111 100101 101000 10110111 10110111 100101 100011 11010101 100100101 110011 100101 11111101 11011111 0101001 111101 11000101 110001101 010001 010111 11010111 11010111 110111 110001 10110111 01100101 100111 111101 01010101 01001101 111001 110101 1 11010111 10111001 0100111 100100 10010111 01000111 10101 111101 110100100 01010101 101101 111101 110100101 01010101 010101 010101 11011101 101100101 1011001 111101 11011111 10110101 101101 110001 11010101 11111111 010001 1001001 010101001 11001101 000111 010100 1 10110101 01110111 110101 1100101 111000111 00010101 110001 100111 10111110 11010101 100101 001001 010010001 11010101 110101 010101 11000110 11010101 1111001 011101 11001110 11000110 011111 011011 11010101 01011101 110101 111101 10011101 01011111 110111 101101 1 01010111 01000101 111101 110101 11011101 11010101 1101000 111101 10010101 1011111 110100 011100 01010011 001100111 100101 010111 11110001 11010101 111101 110101 01001101 11110101 101111 011001 11011101 01010101 110111 010101 11110011 10110101 011101 001101 11011101 01011101 100111 010101 1 00111101 11010101 0100100 100101 11010101 01110101 110101 0100101 11111011 110011111 010101 101001 11010111 11110101 1101001 010100 01111101 110101010 1000101 110101 11110101 11001101 1111001 110101 10011101 00010001 001111 100100 11011111 110101100 010101 111101 01010011 11110111 011000 110001 11011011 10111011 101101 110100
- Amount of stanzas: 46
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 121
- Average number of words per stanza: 22
- Amount of lines: 193
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, and, no are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Mediterranean Verses;
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