This is an analysis of the poem Homage To Sextus Propertius - Xii that begins with:
Who, who will be the next man to entrust his girl to a friend?
Love interferes with fidelities;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbXbXXXX ccdXdXeX bXXXfbdabebde eebeb bedfe abbXb deeXXXeffeeX eXebdaXe dXXdXXXXab
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,8,13,5,5,5,12,8,10,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110001100101001 110100100 0111111100 11101000101 100010100101101000010 01010100101010010010100 11101010101110010 10110 101 1101110100 1110110100 101010110011101010 10001111110 11110110110110 1011011011110 11011010 11101101 111010010100101 110100101010010100 1101111010100 1110101000 1111100110 1101101 011110 11110001001 1010010010 11010101101 1011001010 100101011010 110110010 0101010100101001 111011011 110101 11010100100 111110010 1111010 10111 1011010001010010 10010010 101111 1110101110011 1011001101 1111101110 11011110 1010111110 1001110110 10010010 110111110100111 1110100100 11010010010010100 011110111010 10111101011 111110010110 111001110010100100 110010110 11010001011 10110010 101101010 11110110011010 0010100010010 1100100110110010 011101110010 10100001001100101101 11110010011000 101 101101010 10001100100 10100101000101000 01010110 100110010 1010100 11110110100 110100 0100111001 1110001001001011
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 360
- Average number of words per stanza: 62
- Amount of lines: 75
- 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, my, of, dear, you are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, i, nor, he, varro are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines lycoris is repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase calvus connects the lines.
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