This is an analysis of The Defiance Of Eteocles by Aeschylus.
MESSENGER
Now at the Seventh Gate the seventh chief,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: X abacdeeXfcdccggdbdcbdcg X bcfXgdhfXCgiigCddifhfaXc
- Stanza lengths: 1,23,1,24,
- Metre: 100 1101010101 1101011001 1101010101 0101100101 0101001101 0101110101 0111010111 1111110101 1001010100 1111110101 11001011101 0101010101 01110010111 0111010001 1101010101 0110010001 1001110101 1110011111 0101010101 1001000011 1110011111 1101111101 0101000101 100 11001010100 1111010001 0111010111 1010100111 1100010101 1111010001 1001011111 1001010101 11001011111 11010001110 1001110110 1101110101 1001110111 1101110101 11010001110 1001110101 1111011101 1101010101 0100110101 0101010011 1101110101 1001010011 1001111111 1111010011
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 4
- Lines: 50
Repeated words/phrases
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Anaphora
or
