This is an analysis of the poem Ovid To His Wife that begins with:
MY aged head now stoops its honours low,
Bow'd with the load of fifty winters' snow; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbcc bbdXebffgghhbbhhbb be cciiaahhddbbddj jbbbbeekkaaccddcce bjjbbdddd jjeeggdd jjddaabbeecXkk kkl ljjiiddhhddmmgg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,18,2,15,18,9,8,14,3,15,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 111110101 1001010101 1101010101 0101000101 1101011101 1101010101 1101010100 01011101001 0101011001 00110011110 0101010101 0101011111 0101000101 0011000101 01011111001 1101010011 1011011101 1101010001 1011110101 11010100101 11111001001 11010101001 01010000101 01101101110 1001011101 11010101001 1111100101 1101111011 1011011101 10011100101 010011001111 1011110101 1111110101 1101010101 1101110101 0101110101 1100010111 11010111001 1101010101 0101010101 1101110101 1101010111 11010111010 10110001010 110110011 0101100001 01001110101 1101110101 0111011101 010100101 0111111111 1100010111 1011010101 01001010101 0111011101 1101010101 1001011001 1111010101 1101001101 01010101001 0101110101 1101010101 11011101001 01010101011 1111110101 1111110101 1101010101 0101010101 1111010101 1000100101 0100110101 1101010101 0101110101 10001110001 0101010101 1111111101 1011000101 1101010101 10011011101 1111010011 0101011111 1011010101 1101011101 111010101 0101011101 1111000101 111110110 1101110100 01110101001 1101110111 1101011111 1101110111 1111111101 11110111001 11010010101 1010001001 11111011 0101011001 0111110101 1101010111 1111011101 1011011101 1111110101 1111111101 1011001111 11011111001 0101111101 1011011101
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 464
- Average number of words per stanza: 84
- Amount of lines: 109
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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, of, his, my, their, thy are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words to, in, no are repeated.
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