This is an analysis of the poem The Broken Balance that begins with:
I. Reference to a Passage in Plutarch's Life of Sulla
The people buying and selling, consuming pleasures, talking in the archways,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X XabcdeecfaX Xaegah c egicggfjffhe X jfacXX ckflfe mXamcf hmachn Xcgmbb X gffbo coheo iXedo p nfdfhlfabcjgab X XacXaag XXgmaphfkf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,11,6,1,12,1,6,6,6,6,6,1,5,5,5,1,14,1,7,10,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110000100101010 0101011001010100010 01100110 11010101110111110 11110010 10010110010010110100 1100011010 10011101001110101100 01001010 1010111100110010 11100010 011000101001 11101 111100101 011001111110110110 10101011100 1001011100011100100 11110110 10010 1001011101100 11111010 110101101111 01100010 1101111101010 100001101 1100110001010 101001010 1101101110110 01010110 0101010111110 100111 1 111101001010 1010010011 1011001111 001101111010 1100110110 0111101011001 1101011101110 01100110111 010110110011 011011010 0110111011 0101001101101 1111101111 11000111011 111001001111 1100101000 11101111010 1101001111111 01011001010110 1001111010 10110101101 10010010001 1101110001010 01111011100111 11100010010110 110101111 0011001010001 101010110010 1110100101 11011010101001 1 11110101001 010010100010 1001111101 11001010110 111110110001001010 01100110110 01001001010 011101010010 01101000110 11110101001001010 110110110101 01001101110 1100100111000 110011000100 1010001010110110 1 1001010010010001 1011111 010010111001010 01010011 1111101101010010 10101110 010101001001001 0110010100 01111011010110010 10011110 0111110110001010 011100010 11010011110011011 110001000 1100 11010111100100 111101100101 00100011010110110 11010010010110 101100010100110101 1110111100111 1100100111010101 1 10110010110111011 11001010101 010101010110101101 10101001101 101110110110101100110 1111101011 1110101110110010011 0100110101010
- Amount of stanzas: 21
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 255
- Average number of words per stanza: 45
- Amount of lines: 110
- Average number of symbols per line: 49 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, good, of, their, with, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words when, instead, the are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines fall is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word perish at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of The Broken Balance;
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