This is an analysis of the poem Anacreontics, The Epicure that begins with:
UNDERNEATH this myrtle shade,
On flowerly beds supinely laid, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXXbbccddeebbbbXXaaffggggg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 27,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010101 1100110001 01001111000 10101010 11111101 01110001 0011101 1011111 10111101 11010001 11111010 100111010 01011101 0011101 1010011 1010100 111101010 1011111 10101111 010100001 1011111 11110001 11010111 1111101 1011101 11011101 1110001
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 892
- Average number of words per stanza: 162
- Amount of lines: 27
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (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; and, why, we are repeated.
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