This is an analysis of the poem The Fable Of Dryope - Ovid's Metamorphoses Book 9, [v. 324-393] that begins with:
She said, and for her lost Calanthis sighs,
When the fair Consort of her son replies.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeeffaaeeccccaaffbbeegghhiicceeeejjhhabbccXXcceekkeeXhffddaaXXeefffddeeiiaaaaffllllbbjjaaXaffeX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 102,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1111011001 1010100101 11010100101 1101110111 1101110101 0101010101 1101100101 11010101 0101010111 1101100101 0101111101 1101010101 1001110111 1101010001 1111010101 1101010101 1101000111 100110101 0101010111 0101110101 1101010101 00111110101 0101010111 0101000101 0111010101 1111011111 1111110111 0100010101 0101110101 01001010101 1001010101 101010111 0101110101 0101110101 1101010101 11001010101 1101000101 11010101001 1111011111 0101010001 0101010111 1111010101 11101010101 1101110101 01100100111 0101010111 0111000101 0110000101 0101010101 11001111110 1101010101 1101011101 1101010011 0111110101 1101110101 101001101010 011111010 01011111 1111010101 1001110110 1101100111 0111110101 1101011101 1101010101 0101100101 1101110101 11010010101 1001010101 11111100101 1101010101 01001001111 0001111101 1101011101 1101111101 1011010101 1111010101 1001011101 1001100101 1111010111 0101110101 0101110101 0101110101 1101110101 1111010111 1101011111 01010100101 11011011111 0011111101 0111111101 0101010101 1111110101 1101011101 1111010101 1111010101 1111010101 1101111101 0111011101 0111011101 1111011100 1101110101 1101101101 1101010110
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 4473
- Average number of words per stanza: 807
- Amount of lines: 102
- 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; her, i, she, to, thy, and, my, his are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, to, my are repeated.
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- summary of The Fable Of Dryope - Ovid's Metamorphoses Book 9, [v. 324-393];
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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