This is an analysis of the poem To Virgil that begins with:
Written at the Request of the Mantuans for the Nineteenth Centenary of
Virgil's Death... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XX XaXa XbXb ccbc XbXb XdXd Xcec bfbf aggg Xece Xhah
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1010010010101110100 101 10101110 1010101010 10101010 11100111010 11101010 111110111 10101010 1010100101 11101111 111011111 10101010 1010000101 100010100 1010101010 10001010 1010101010 100010010 001000100 100010011 100011101 1111010 101110101 10100110 101010101 10101010 111010101 10101011 111110111 11101110 1010010101 11101010 1110001001 10101110 101010101 10101010 1001010101 10111000 111111101 100010010 101010101
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 133
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 43
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
The author used the same word now at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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