This is an analysis of the poem To Pompeius Varus that begins with:
Pompey, what fortune gives you back
To the friends and the gods who love you?... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbXdXed Xfgfffhhf eacXXiggi
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,9,9,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10110111 001101111 111101101 01101011 11110010 11110010 11010 0101 00101010 11010101 0101010 10101111101 011010 10110101 1110111 1001 01111 11001111 11111101 00011110 11111101 11011010 01001101 1111011 10111 0111 0101011
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 274
- Average number of words per stanza: 51
- Amount of lines: 27
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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; you, with, our are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word you is repeated.
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