This is an analysis of the poem Homage To Sextus Propertius - Vii that begins with:

Me happy, night, night full of brightness;
Oh couch made happy by iny long delectations;...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXbcccXXX badeXXf egbah abfdXbababd bg XXcbfh
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,7,5,11,2,6,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 110111010 1111011011000 110111001010 1010101001 1011110011 101001 1111001111001 010101010110 10 0110100101101 010110100111 11100001010 110101 1011010100010100 100101011110 1110010 1111010111101 1111011 10111101 10111011 11111100 1111010110 101110110 1111010 011101010 1111000 0111011 1110101101011 111110 11110010 0111011010 0101110 1111110 1111 111111010 00101 010111011 1011100 011110 111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 246
  • Average number of words per stanza: 47
  • Amount of lines: 40
  • 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.

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