This is an analysis of the poem Dion that begins with:

. See Plutarch.
Serene, and fitted to embrace,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaaXXbbcdedecffggc hffhhfifeggegfgfghXgXeeb ggjjfjjfcjcjccffggkckcfjfjfeekhkXaa lflfXhmmichXX nffncchehemm cdcdcffcchcXbcbcffccjjX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 18,24,35,13,12,23,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 110 01110001 100110111 01000110 1001011000 110100010 1100010010 11110101 111010101 0101000101 1110010101 10011110001 111101 01100101 1001010001 1001010101 1001000101 11010010011 110100101001 11010110111 1101011111 0101010101 1101010101 1111010111 11010100100 1001110101 1011011111 0101110001 0111010101 11010000101 1111010001 1101110111 1011110101 010101 1101101101 11010100101 1111010110 110110101 01010000 11010010101 010110001 1001010010 1111010011 10010101101 1101111101 111100100111 1110010001 1101010001 1101010101 1001110101 0101001101 11110111101 110101000101 111100000101 11001111101 011100100100 11010101001 0101110100 1111111101 1001010101 1101000111 11010000101 01001000111 1111011101 111111 100101 11011100101 01011101 11001110111 01010101 11010101 11010011 011100101 110111001 11010100 110111011 01110111 11011101010 0101000101 10010010 1101010101 100101001100 01010101101 0100110101 01110100101 1011010100 1101110101 1111000101 1101010110 10110111011100 1111111101 0101110101 1001010111 1101011011 1111110100 01010001 11001101 01101101 11111111 10110101 1101010111 11010011 1101111111 01010011001 1101001101 01101101 1101000101 0101110101 1001000111 0101000101 1001010101 1101010101 10110010101 11110010000 01010100010 1100011111 00110100010 1101110101 1001010101 0101010001 0101110101 1101010101 10101011101 1101010101 11111101010
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 889
  • Average number of words per stanza: 143
  • Amount of lines: 126
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • 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; and, not, that are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, the, him are repeated.

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  • summary of Dion;
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