This is an analysis of the poem Bki:Xii Praising Augustus that begins with:
What god, man, or hero do you choose to praise
on the high pitched flute or the lyre, Clio?...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXa bXcd Xefg haaa aXai fdha acej XiaX abcX afhX ikad kaga fccX gXjaXfeca
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111011101 1011110110 11000110010 01010 10110101101 1110111110 1011010010 101 11101101101 00110100101 10100101001 01001 11111001001 10101011011 10101101101 10010 01101110110 11010111111 1101100100 11001 11010011110 11010100100 01101101011 11110 11101111011 11110010010 01011111101 11101 01110110010 01111101101 10111001001 01001 11110011101 01001010101 01011010110 10101 10011001010 01001010110 10001110010 0100 0110100111 11001111100 11010111101 01010 010101101100 01010010101 01010110101 01010 10110000101 10100101010 110111111010 01001 10001010100 1011101110 1011010011 01101 10111011010 110100110100 11101101010 11101
- Amount of stanzas: 15
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 155
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 60
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (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; on, and, s, you, of, their, ll are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, of, and, you are repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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