This is an analysis of the poem Sunt Leones that begins with:

The lions who ate the Christians on the sands of the arena
By indulging native appetites played was now been seen a...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbXcXccdddeeffggbbgg
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 22,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 0101101010100010 101010101111010 1010010001 00101010101 00100010101 10000111110 0010001 00101011010 01010101010 1000010101 1001010101 0101010101 110111101010 01011101010 1111001001 0101010101 1101110111 0100110111 110101001110101 10010101110101 110111001100010 11110101100010
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 951
  • Average number of words per stanza: 169
  • Amount of lines: 22
  • 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.

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