This is an analysis of the poem The Praise Of Pindar In Imitation Of Horace His Second Ode, Book 4 that begins with:
Pindarum quisquis studet oemulari, &c.
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Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a abbaacccddXe Xfggfebebbggb Xeeddhheeccii jjaaeeeeeeeeaaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,12,13,13,15,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 100101010001 1 100100011 010100011001 101100010111 1101111111 1111101 1011000101 11010101 1010001 1010101110101 01010101 00011110101 1 1101111101 1001010001 101101001 11011101 100010111 00110101 1011010101 1001010111 110101 11010101 1010101 111101011 1 10110111 0101010100100 1001010101 010010101001 1011110101 0111011101 11011101 1100101010101 11111101 01011101 01110101010 11011101010 110010011101 01011101 0001011111 100101100101 10111001 1000101 1011001 010101101 01011101 01010101 010111001 110100101 1001001 11010101 110101100100
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 400
- Average number of words per stanza: 69
- Amount of lines: 55
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; about is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words which, about are repeated.
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