This is an analysis of the poem Heraclitus that begins with:
They told me, Heraclitus, they told me you were dead,
They brought me bitter news to hear and bitter tears to shed.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccdd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1111000111101 11110101110101 1111010110111 11001010111101 1111110111101 0110110110111 11110101100001 11110101101101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 217
- Average number of words per stanza: 42
- Amount of lines: 8
- Average number of symbols per line: 54 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; they, and, i, me are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word they is repeated.
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- summary of Heraclitus;
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