This is an analysis of the poem To Leuconoee that begins with:
Seek not, Leuconoee, to know how long you're going to live yet,
What boons the gods will yet withhold, or what they're going to give yet;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccdd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 11100111110011 1101010111110011 110001010111110 1011110011110010 01011101000101 010101010111111 111111111111011 010101111111011
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 496
- Average number of words per stanza: 99
- Amount of lines: 8
- Average number of symbols per line: 61 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 12
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; yet, to are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines yet, ye are repeated).
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- summary of To Leuconoee;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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