This is an analysis of the poem Antony and Cleopatra, Act II, Scene II [The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne] that begins with:
Enobarbus describes Queen Cleopatra
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Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X abcdecebfXfeghic j XghigXkdjbjae b ecdjXddj Xcd kdcbX j difjgkX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,16,1,13,1,8,3,5,1,7,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 10000111010 10001011 0111010101 11010011101 100111011 0101000001010 1001011111 01011101010 110001110110 01001010101 00010101011 10000110111 01010101110 11010111010 0101011101 01010011101 111010 010111100 10000101010100 11011100111 1111100101 01011101010 10010011011 11001010001 01010001101 0001010101 01010101100 100111010101 10011111100 1101110101 1101010 0101010 100001010100100 0100010101 0101010101 111001100100 110101001011 1010011101001 1101010101 1101110 010101 1111010101 110111 10001101 1101010101 11010111110 110101010 110111 1001100110100 100010101 1101001101 0100010010101 01011111110 1111011101 01010010101 1011010
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 227
- Average number of words per stanza: 40
- Amount of lines: 57
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (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; of, her are repeated.
The author used the same word enobarbus at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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