This is an analysis of the poem Homage To Sextus Propertius - Vi that begins with:
When, when, and whenever death closes our eyelids,
Moving naked over Acheron...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a XbBaXXcdcXBXaefgcdXX gdec gXcX fXc XXfXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,20,4,4,3,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111010110111 101010100 0101110110010 1001100010 110011 10101100 101010101111010 01101010010 010111011010 1010010010 1110110100 1001100010 111100100101011 10010101100 110101100 1100111001 00111010 01010010 01011010 1001111100 1111101010100 1010011001 101010010111110 01011111 1010010010 1101101 11010110 111010 1110010 101001011 100010 01111 101011001010100 1100111 0111101 01100110100011 111011
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 229
- Average number of words per stanza: 41
- Amount of lines: 37
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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; and, my, in, vain are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word in is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines together is repeated).
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