This is an analysis of the poem Fragments - Lines 0667 - 0682 that begins with:
If I had money, Simonides, I would not feel such pain
As I do now, when in the company of the noble....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXcXcdXaXcabXbd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 011101000111111 11111001000010 100110101110111110 101110111111011 11011110111010 10010110101 10101011101110 11001011001100001001000 110111111011 0111111100 11110001111100110 110100110101011010 01010011011010110010 1101101110101 101100110101010 101111101001010
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 990
- Average number of words per stanza: 184
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 61 (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; i, they are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words as, and are repeated.
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- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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