This is an analysis of the poem Horace, Book Ii. Ode Xvi. that begins with:
Ease is the weary merchant's prayer,
Who ploughs by night the Ægean flood,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd cece dcdc fgfg XbXb hihi ddddXbhbh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 10010101 1111011 11011101 11010101 11010101 11010101 01011101 01011101 11011101 11010111 01000101 01110101 10011101 01110011 11011001 11010001 11111111 11011101 01010101 111110011 1101111000 01110111 010101100 10110101 01010101 11010101 110110001 11000101 11011101 110010111 10110101 11010001 110101001 01010111 01111101 01000101
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 141
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; ease, thy are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words for, the, nor, thy are repeated.
The author used the same word for at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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