This is an analysis of the poem Helen Of Troy that begins with:
Wild flight on flight against the fading dawn
The flames' red wings soar upward duskily. ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbcdcefgfhijdadbkclmbdnkaXekdXbaeXjjAfdehmadbkagdlaikdcbfkflnkXdfbkabmkcA
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 74,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1111010101 01011110100 000100101101 1101011101 1101010111 1111011100 1101111111 0101110001 1011011111 1101011101 0101111001 1101011111 1111010111 0101010101 1101010101 1111010111 1011011111 0011010101 0001110101 10110101110 0101010101 1101010111 1111010111 1101000101 1101010101 1101110101 1111010101 1101110111 1111010101 0111110101 11110100001 1011011101 1101010100 1111010101 0111100101 0111010101 0101010001 1111010101 0101011111 1111011101 0101111111 1111011101 0101110111 1111010111 1101110111 1111010101 0101010101 1101110101 1111011111 1111010101 11100101010 0101010101 1111111101 010001111011 0100111110 10101010101 1101011101 1101110101 0111110101 1111110101 11011101010 1111010101 0101110101 1111110101 0111110111 1111111111 0101110101 1011011001 11110100101 1101010111 1111111001 1011010101 1111010101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1621
- Average number of words per stanza: 311
- Amount of lines: 73
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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; me, to, all, and, their, that are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word to is repeated.
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