This is an analysis of the poem Propertii Første Bogs Tredie Elegie that begins with:
Ret som hun smægtende laae, mens paa Havet Theseiske Kiøl gleed,
Hist paa forladte Strand, ene den Gnosiske Møe,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXXXXaXbXXcXXdXcXdXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXaXXXbXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 46,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111111101011 1110111101 11101001001010 111001111101 101110011111010 111011110001 101011110111 1001001111101 111101101100110 101010101101 01111111110010 101111111001 1110100111010 101100111001 10111101110110 11111111111 110001110110110 10101101001 11111001111100010 101111101011 111011100101 1111001111001 111111101010 1111111101 1101101100010 101101111111 11001111111111 1111011111101 101111111101 111101111101 10010110111101 1011011111 11111101101 111111010101 10010010101011111 1110111011010 101001111101001 10100110111 10110101101 1111111011101 101011111101 11111111101 100011010111001 111101101011 1001111110010 11000111101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 2553
- Average number of words per stanza: 465
- Amount of lines: 46
- Average number of symbols per line: 55 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; hun, de, du are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word om is repeated.
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