This is an analysis of the poem Curtius that begins with:
How spake the Oracle, my Curtius, how?
Methought, while on the shadowed terraces... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcdeefegXhbX gdfeibfdfXfhX ehegidXejbjibbddf beXgikiegdcdefhhhiXb hcbfkX fbcbeabdjkXhfd bjbbXfid feikhecbak eibacbbfdcfdfjf hhXbibiiXbefcdi
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 13,13,17,20,6,14,8,10,15,15,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1101001101 1011010100 11110111101 0101100111 11011110011 11011101001 100010011111 1101011101 0100011111 0111110100 10101010101 1110110011 11010 110111 0111110001 1101011101 01001001101 1111111101 1101111101 1111010111 11010011101 01010011001 1111111100 1101010111 1100110001 11010111010 1110111101 11110110001 10101010001 01110101101 10110010001 0111110111 1101010011 01001101101 1101110111 0101111101 1101010111 0111000101 0111000100 01011100101 11111100111 0111000111 1111010111 1111100111 110011111 10 0101111011 1001011101 1101011011 0101010111 1111000111 1111110101 1111110001 1101010011 1101001111 1101010001 1101100101 0101010101 0011110111 010101110111 1101110011 1111111001 1111011011 1111011101 0111011111 1101010111 1101010111 1101010101 01011110010 1111110100 1101010001 11010101111 1110100001 11000011101 11010100101 011011101 1101010111 11010010011 1011000101 0101000101 1011000101 0101010001 1101010101 111101010010 1001111101 1011011111 0101010001 01110101101 1001010001 0111001110 1101011101 10100101011 11000100101 1111101101 11010010001 0101011101 11110101001 0111011101 1111100100 1111011101 1111111101 1111010111 100110101001 1101010101 1111011111 11011101001 0011110101 1101010101 1011011111 0101111101 0101010111 1001001001 1101001111 1111000101 1011 1101111 101 1111110001 11001011101 1011000101 0101000101 0101010111 1111110101 0100011101 1001111101 1101101101 0111111101 1101100111 1111010101 1101111111 0101010101
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 561
- Average number of words per stanza: 106
- Amount of lines: 131
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; i, and, my, of, his, as are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, from, what, the are repeated.
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- summary of Curtius;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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