This is an analysis of the poem Antaeus: [a Fragment] that begins with:
So neck to stubborn neck, and obstinate knee to knee,
Wrestled those two; and peerless Heracles... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXaabbXbcXdcd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1101011100101 1011110100 11011111010 1111111111 110100101 1101110101 110101101 1011010100 1100110101 111101011 1101010111 11011101001 11111100111 11111110001
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 645
- Average number of words per stanza: 112
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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