This is an analysis of the poem Lucretius that begins with:
Lucilla, wedded to Lucretius, found
Her master cold; for when the morning flush... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abacdefadgdgedhaefiagdcea edfaXdj gckaggcefgdXgdailijdacgmeXj nadaoXf egecap lgqreek Xgjgak ojdadgogacfidaaagg ddaasgthkeXgXamderdaX ecqXeaicgdcgeeeXdeetcqrgdgtcffrqXqibecdp Xjccotnqa eqkprtee aqrXilXcgXgjqgsadXjqlrjc bXgsqgdeefkpXrgqgdkgsrroaarXecoggXtdc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 25,7,27,7,6,7,6,18,21,40,9,8,24,38,32,7,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1001001001 0101110101 0101010111 0101110101 1101010101 0101000111 0110010101 1101110101 1100110100 1101010101 11100100011 0111011101 1101011101 11001110100 1011011101 1101111011 0111010101 1011110001 1001110101 0101010001 1100110101 11001110111 01001110111 1001010101 1110010111 10001111101 10110100101 1011011101 1101010111 010010001000 101100001000 1111011101 10111110111 11110010101 1111010111 11010100101 0111010101 1111010101 11000100101 100010100001 11010100111 0101010101 11011111110 0101001101 0101110111 0100011101 1111011101 1101010111 11010100111 1101000101 1111111101 11100100011 10100011111 01101100101 1111000101 1111111111 01001011101 1101011111 1001101101 1010101110 010101100001 1101110101 1001011111 111101111010 0101101010 1100111111 10011010101 0111110111 11001010011 010111101 11010100101 0110011100 1001110011 11111000101 1011110111 1011011101 01011101111 1011111101 1101000101 10011 10101 1101111101 0111011101 1111100101 1101010101 101111111100 1101010101 10110100011 0101010001 10110010101 010010101001 1101010100 0101010111 10110101001 0101010101 1101010011 11001010111 011010101101 0101111011 01011011111 1001010101 10110101010 1101010101 1110111101 0100110111 0101000111 1101011101 1101011101 1101010101 1101010101 1101010111 1111110101 1111010111 1001110101 0101011101 1001010100 1100111101 1111111101 1111100011 1001110001 01001010001 1111110111 1101011111 10111100110 10101001101 0101010101 1100100110 1101011101 0101011101 1111010101 0101110111 1111110101 1101111111 1001101111 0111110101 0101111001 11000101010 1111011111 1111010101 1111010101 1111011001 11010101110 1111110101 1101010111 11100100111 1011111111 1011010111 1111010111 1111011101 0101011111 01110100111 1010110111 10101010111 1111111111 10011110101 1101110101 110001001000 1101010100 0100010111 11010101001 0101010101 1101010101 1100110011 010011100100 10101010101 1100011111 1101110101 00101111001 01011110110 0101010111 0101111110 0101001101 11011100001 11110101101 1001111011 1011000101 1101011100 0101110101 110010101001 010100101101 1101011101 10111100101 1011010101 0111011011 1110011100 10010010101 11011101100 0101000111 1111010101 01110101001 1101110100 1101011011 01010100101 1011110100 1100110111 1011011111 1011010001 1101001101 1111011100 11011101111 101111001011 11000100101 1001101101 1001110101 1101010100 110100101111 1101010101 10001100111 1111010101 0101110111 1111010110 11010010101 11000101001 1101110111 0101010101 1011111101 0101010100 1001010100 0101100101 1101101101 0111010110 1001000011 1101010111 11110101010 11000100101 0101111101 10011011101 1011001101 11011101110 10010111111 1101010101 1111011111 1101111100 1111010111 1101010101 1111111100 11110100101 1101010001 1101010100 1101100101 1001010001 1001010111 111101 10111 1010011101 1101110101 1101011111 1001010100 1101000111 111111110010 1101010101 1000111111 11010111001 0111110101 1111010001 11011101110 11001110101 01010010111 10010111011 000011101110 1101011101 110101001 1101010111 0101010101 1111010111 1100111111 1001011000 1101010001 1101110111 0111010111 1011110101 1111110101 1111011101 1101111111 11011111001 0111010001 1111011110 1111110101 1101010011 11110111111 11111101011 11010101110
- Amount of stanzas: 15
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 990
- Average number of words per stanza: 147
- Amount of lines: 283
- Average number of symbols per line: 52 (very long strings)
- 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; and, dreams, now, of, her, nor, my, i, meant, he, mountain, hide, no, it, little, what, not, or, his, thus, him are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, of, nor, not, the, no, what are repeated.
The author used the same words storm, and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines life, now are repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The words/phrases the, deity connect the lines.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of Lucretius;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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