This is an analysis of the poem Epode that begins with:
Not to know vice at all, and keep true state,
Is virtue and not fate:... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddddefggaahhffbbiijjjjddhhXkllmmnocmhhnnnnjjkkffjjjjcckkmcccggjjlleeccaaooffkknnbbXjhhaajjccddmmjjoonnooddnnmX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 116,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011111111 010111 1011000111 101101 1001111011 111101 1101011101 010111 11111011001 111101 1001110111 110100 01001011001 1010100 0101010101 101100 1010010011 011111 10110101110 1101110 1101010110 110100 1111000111 111111 1001001101 111101 1001010101 111101 1100100101 111101 0111011111 011101 1101010110 01011 1010010101 111101 01111101010 1011110 1001010111 110101 0111110101 111010 00010010111 110111 1011011101 101101 00010111010 1111110 1111110101 011101 0101011111 0101001 1001111100 010100 1101100101 1010011 01111101010 1101010 10111110101 101101 011111001 110111 11010001010 101001 0101001111 110111 1111111111 101111 1100111101 1101101 0111010011 111111 1111010111 1011001 11001010111 111101 1101110100 011111 1111010101 111111 1011011100 010100 111111110 110100 1101011101 10111 1111010101 011101 1111110010 011111 1101010111 100101 01001111001 110101 1101010011 1100101 1101001101 111101 01010100001 101001 10110001110 1101010 1101010111 110101 0101000111 100101 001100010010 1101010 1101000101 000101 11010111001 0100101 1101011001 010101 10011001010 11010111010
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 4109
- Average number of words per stanza: 748
- Amount of lines: 116
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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, to, by, as are repeated.
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- summary of Epode;
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