This is an analysis of the poem Homage To Sextus Propertius - I that begins with:
Shades of Callimachus, Coan ghosts of Philetas
It is in your grove I would walk,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXabbcade dececXe eeceffagebehXefXhXeh bXXXgXhhcecaXcaXXXefXXXXeaehXhbhaXXXXheae
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,7,20,41,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101000110100 00011111 11110011 100101000100 10100100 1111110010 0111110 1111111 110110110 110001001110101 1010100 1111010010 011010010010110 01101110010 010100010 1101110010 1000010001101010 0100001100010100100 10101000100 1110010101010 10110110011010 1101101111 110110010 1111001101100 10111001011 0100100 11111010 1110111 1001010010110 101010011 101000110011001 100 11111010110 11110111 1101101 010111011 111001010100010 11111 011011010010 111000100100101100 1001111010 10100001100010 111110010 11001011 11101010 1100110111 110000101010 111100001101011 1011010010011010 11100010 10101001000 100010110101001100 11101111100 100100010100101100 1001101101 1101111011 1010010 00100110 1111011001010 110111010100 110011 100010010010 100100010 0110101011 11000100101010111 1011100110 0110011110110 1010 100101001001011 110100011010110 1010101000100 10011000001 11110001 111101100101000 110010010 0110011000
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 642
- Average number of words per stanza: 115
- Amount of lines: 76
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; or, of, my, and, not are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words what, a, or, and, nor are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines italy is repeated).
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