This is an analysis of the poem Homage To Sextus Propertius - Ii that begins with:
I had been seen in the shade, recumbent on cushioned Helicon,
The water dripping from Bellerophon's horse,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcddeXbafXgXXefbhiecaeXibbiXX XaicX eXeegjefXeXegXedXeXjha
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 30,5,22,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101001100110101 01010010001 101110111 101001100 101111101100 110111001110 100101010011111 1101010101101 10010100 1111011 11010011001001 1001000101010110 1011 010100101 111011 10100 10101011 11010011001001 111100111100110 1110010110 1110011 10010011001010 11101111 1100011100001 1011011010 11111001 11010110 101011010 1001001011011111 11101101010010 100100110100100 10010101 0110010010 11010100101 1101101000 1001000110001 1110110111100010 101001 101001 1101011101010 0101 101001011 100101101110010 10010110111 01101 1111001110 111101010 1101101001 11101010 1001101011 1101001010 111100101010000 10110 11000111100 1100101 1000100111 10110011010001
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 800
- Average number of words per stanza: 140
- Amount of lines: 57
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, and, ever are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words 'of, and are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines industry is repeated).
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- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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