This is an analysis of the poem Mimnermus In Church that begins with:
You promise heavens free from strife,
Pure truth, and perfect change of will; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcc dedeff ggXggg ehehhh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010101 11101100 11100101 11111101 11011101 01110111 11101101 11010001 10111101 11111101 11110111 11011101 111111010 010011101 01010110 10010101 11010101 11110101 10001111 01110101 11011111 11011101 11010101 11000111
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 214
- Average number of words per stanza: 39
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; sweet is repeated.
The author used the same word you at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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