This is an analysis of the poem Bkii:Vii A Friend Home From The Wars that begins with:

O Pompey, often led, with me, by Brutus,
the head of our army, into great danger,...

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcd effg XggX XgXe XbeX ceaX XXdc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 11010101110 01011000110 111110100 0110111001 10010100111 01110110100 10111101100 0011001001 11110100101 11110101101 110101110 0101010101 10111001110 10011001001 011101101 1011101010 11100011111 11101101010 110111101 1010001011 10110100100 11001010010 1100101011 0111011010 11110111101 010011111000 110100101 0101010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 168
  • Average number of words per stanza: 32
  • Amount of lines: 28
  • Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; s is repeated.

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