This is an analysis of the poem Imitations Of Horace: The First Epistle Of The Second Book that begins with:

Ne Rubeam, Pingui donatus Munere
(Horace, Epistles II.i.267)... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXaabbcXddbbbbbbeeffggff hhddbbhh Xfaabbffaacc hhccii aajjkX XX bbkX jX lljjll ccffbbffff aaffffjjmX bbhhccggffbbaanncc hhlXhhmm jjhh jjbbhhmmaaccgXhhjjbb bbbXXckkddccffffggffhh nnccllbboohhppggllff iikkccaa ffbbaabbqXffhhffppkkppffhhhheeffhhbXllaa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 24,8,12,6,6,2,4,2,6,10,10,18,8,4,20,22,20,8,52,22,19,14,8,34,10,8,20,4,10,30,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 11101010010 101001 1111001101 0101110101 1101010101 1101011101 1101010111 11011010101 1011010101 11001001101 1001010101 0101110001 0101010101 1101010101 1111000101 10101010111 1101000101 1101010111 0110010111 1101000111 1101011101 1101010101 0111010101 1101011111 0101001101 0101010101 1101000101 0111011101 1101110101 1111000101 1001110101 110110111011 1011000110 1101110001 1011010111 1100110111 1011111111 0001110101 1011000111 1101010101 1111010101 0101111101 11110001110 11010111010 1101010101 1111010111 0101010101 1111111111 111001111 11011100101 0101111111 1111010101 1111110111 1101110001 1101110101 1101011000 10101001111 11110100010 0111010110 1111110111 1101010011 1101010101 1111010111 11000101110 1101110111 1111111111 1111010101 1101010101 1101010101 0101010101 1111110111 1001010110 1111010101 1101000101 1111110101 0101010101 1111001101 0101010101 0101010101 1111010001 10101010101 1111010011 0101110101 1111110101 0111010101 1101011101 1101010011 1101010111 1101010101 010111010100 1010010101 0010010101 0101000101 1101010101 1111010101 1111010001 1101110111 1111010101 1001010101 1101111101 1011011111 1101011101 0101011101 1101010101 1111010001 1101000101 11111110101 11111001111 1101010101 0101001101 1101010101 110010100010 110110101 0011000101 11011111001 1100110111 1111011101 1111011111 1011011101 1101110101 1101110101 0111010111 1101001101 1100110101 1111010001 1101010101 1011011001 1111010101 1111010101 0111010101 1101110101 1101010011 1101111111 0111110100 0111110101 1001010101 11010100101 1111110101 1101110001 111000101 0101110101 11110001001 0101010101 101010101110 1111010010 1001011101 0101010001 11010100101 1101000111 1101010101 1011010101 0101110101 1101111111 01010010011 1110011101 0111011101 11010010111 1101011101 1111011111 1111011111 1111001111 0101000101 1101010011 0101111101 0101000101 1101010101 0101010101 0111010001 0111001101 1110010001 1111110101 1101110111 11110010101 1111011101 0100100101 1111110001 1111010101 1111011111 1101110101 1101110111 1111000101 1111110111 11010001111 1111010101 11001010101 1101011101 1101110101 1101010111 1111011111 1111110001 1101010011 1101010111 0101010011 1101010101 0111011001 1110111101 1011111101 1111010101 01011111010 0011110111 01010101010 11001100010 0101011101 1101110101 1111010011 1111010001 1001110101 1101010001 1111111101 1101001101 1111110101 0111110001 1101010101 0101110101 0101001101 1001011001 1011011101 1101110001 1001011011 1101010101 10110001001 1111010001 11001110101 0101010101 1111010101 11010101010 0101110101 10010100101 1101110101 1101010111 1111110101 1011010101 0111110001 0111010101 1101010101 0101010101 1111010111 1111111111 0101010101 1111011001 0101110101 1101110001 1101100101 1001110111 01011111001 0111010101 0111111101 1011110011 0101010101 1101110101 0100010101 1110010001 1101110101 0101110101 1101110011 0101011101 11011101101 0101110101 1111010101 0101011101 1101011111 0101011001 111011101001 1101010101 11011111001 010100101011 1001010101 1101110101 1011110101 01001010101 010101110001 1111001101 1101011001 1101010111 10101010101 010111001010 1111110001 1101010111 1101110101 1101010101 11011110001 11001010101 0111010101 11010111010 010010100010 1011000111 01110110101 0111010101 11010011101 11110111001 1111110101 011101101 1101110001 1101011101 0111010101 1111110101 0100110111 1111001101 11011010101 0101011111 1101111111 1111011101 01011101100 1101011101 0101111101 1101010101 0101010001 01010110001 1001110101 1011011111 1101011011 1101010101 1101011101 1101010011 0101110101 0111110110 1101110111 1011001101 1101010111 01001100101 1101011101 0101100011 11101100111 11110001011 0101010101 1101011111 1111001111 1101010001 1101000101 1101110101 1001000101 1001010101 1111110101 1101011101 1011000101 1101010101 101110010100 1010111010100 10111011101 1111110111 1110011101 1111011001 0101000101 1111110101 1111110111 0101011101 0101010111 11110011101 0101011011 1101000101 0101010001 1011011101 1101011101 1111010101 11110111101 1111011001 11010110001 1111010111 1110110101 1101010101 0111010101 0101011101 0111011101 10100111001 1111011101 1111011001 0101110001 01100010111 1101111101 1111001101 1101100001 1001010101 0101110001 11010010101 10110100111 0101011101 1111011101 1111110101 1111011101 1111110001 10010100101 10011000101 0101001001 1110010101 0111010101 11011111010 11011101010 01010101010 11010111001 1111110101 101010101010 1011001101 01100111001 10111010111 0101010101 111110101 1111010101 1111011111 1101111101 1101010111 1101011101 11110100111 1101110101 1101110101 1101010111 1101110001 1011010001 0101011101 1101010101 0101011111 1111111111 0110010101 1101010101 0101010101 1010101001000 1111110101 1111011101 1101110101 1101010101 1111110001 1001010110
  • Amount of stanzas: 30
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 643
  • Average number of words per stanza: 110
  • Amount of lines: 439
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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; of, we, by, his, if, what, now, to, and, who, in, her, their, how, with, your are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words how, now, to, what, verse, the are repeated.

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