This is an analysis of the poem Fragments - Lines 0183 - 0192 that begins with:
Among rams and asses and horses, Kyrnos, we look for those
Of noble breeding, and a man wants them to mate...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXabbXcca
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 011110110101111 010101011001 010110101111100 01100110111100010 1101010010010011 01101011000101 1001110010101110 0101011101 11100110100101001 010101101001010101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 607
- Average number of words per stanza: 115
- Amount of lines: 10
- Average number of symbols per line: 60 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 12
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, base are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines stock is repeated).
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