This is an analysis of the poem Vertumnus And Pomona : Ovid's Metamorphoses, Book 14 [v. 623-771] that begins with:

The fair Pomona flourish'd in his reign;
Of all the Virgins of the sylvan train,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccccbbddeeffggcXXeggbbhheeaacceeeeeeeeeeeeeeecccaXffcccciiccccjjffeeaaeeeejjiiaaXebbbiieehhffeeeeeekkccbbeXaaeeggaalljj
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 123,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 0101010001 0101000101 1101010101 110101001 0001010101 0111010111 11010100101 1101010101 01110101001 01010001001 0101010101 1110100101001 1011010101 1111111101 1101010101 1111000101 1101010101 0101010101 0101011101 0101011110 1101010101 1101011001 0111010101 1110010001 0111110101 0101010101 1110010101 1101010101 0101010111 1101000101 1011110101 10001000101 11001010101 11001011101 1001010111 11111000101 0101010101 1011001111 1101010101 1111000101 0101100101 01010100101 1111011111 1011010101 0111111001 0101010101 0101010101 1101110111 0101010101 0100010101 0101010101 1101110101 1111110111 11010101110 1101010101 1111011101 1101010101 1001010101 1111010101 0101010101 1101010001 1101000101 10111101011 1101010101 1011110101 0101110101 1101100101 1101010101 1001110101 11110011111 1111010101 1001110101 1111010111 0101111101 0101010011 1111011101 1011011101 11110100101 1111010101 1111010101 11110111001 1110010101 1011110111 1001010101 01011001010 1101000101 1111110101 1111110111 0101010101 0111010101 0101010101 1111010101 1111110101 11110101001 1101110101 0111010111 0101011111 1101110101 1101110101 1011111101 01111010101 1101101101 1011010101 11011101010 11110111010 1101011101 1110011001 1111110101 0101000101 1111110101 1011001101 01010011101 1101010101 1111111111 11111010101 1101001001 0101010101 1101110101 1101000101 0101111001 0101010101 0011010101 10110101001
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 5431
  • Average number of words per stanza: 958
  • Amount of lines: 123
  • 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; to, his, he, you, with, so are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words to, like, a, the are repeated.

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