This is an analysis of the poem From The 'Antigone' that begins with:
Overcome -- O bitter sweetness,
Inhabitant of the soft cheek of a girl --... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcXca bcdedee fef
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,7,3,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10111010 01000011001 0111001 01110110 1001100 101101110 10101001 101110110 10010100 10110111 1001100 10110101 11110101 1101111 11111001 01000101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 168
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, overcome are repeated.
The author used the same word overcome at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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