This is an analysis of the poem To Quintus Dellius that begins with:
Be tranquil, Dellius, I pray;
For though you pine your life away... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabab Ccdcd ccece ffgfg cchCh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,5,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0101011 11111101 010101 11011111 111101 10110101 010010110 101101 10110111 110001 11111101 11110101 110101 11110111 110111 11011111 01010011 110101 11110101 01011 1111101 11111111 010101 10110101 1100001
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 165
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 25
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (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 is repeated.
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