This is an analysis of the poem To Quintus Hirpinus that begins with:
To Scythian and Cantabrian plots,
Pay them no heed, O Quintius!... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbba Xcddc eeffe bagga XXbbf Xhiih
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,5,5,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010011001 1011110 1111 0111 1001011 10011110 1101010 0111 01001 1101010 110110010 10111010 1101 0101 0101010 11011111 1100011 11101 1111 1101111 101110101 1111110 1111 11101 011101 11101101001 1101010 11101 10101 00011010
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 133
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 26 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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