This is an analysis of the poem At A Vatican Exercise (Excerpt) that begins with:
The Latin speeches ended, the English thus began
Hail native language, that by sinews weak... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xaabbccaaddeeeeffggeeggeeddhhhbffccidhhgggghhbhffeeii
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 53,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 0101010010101 1101011101 11111000101 1101010101 11000111101 1011000101 11110011001 1101111101 1111101101 11001111101 11111101111 1110010001 0111110101 1001011011 0101010111 1111011111 1011011111 11110111010 10111111010 1111011101 1111100001 11110111010 110101101010 1111011101 1101011101 1100111101 1111001101 1111010111 1100010101 1111001001 1100110011 1111111101 0111110011 1101010111 0101011111 1011110100 11010100111 10001100101 0101010111 01010001010 11010101010 11010011110 1101110110 1111111101 01010100101 1101011101 1101000101 1101111101 1101100011 0101111001 1110011101 11000100100 0101110100
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 2484
- Average number of words per stanza: 419
- Amount of lines: 53
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (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; thee, i, to, of, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines thee is repeated).
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