This is an analysis of the poem Homage To Sextus Propertius - Xi that begins with:
1
The harsh acts of your levity!...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xaab XcXXXdef bd agef b ah bgXXX hhXb dbbdbXbc cd bX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,8,2,4,1,2,5,4,8,2,2,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1 01101100 10110 1111011110 1 01101100101 10110010 010010110 1110001010101001 1110100100100 0111111 0110101101110 101011110110 0101111 0011111010 111011011011 10011101 0111010010 1101110101111 100101010 11010010 11101011 1001011 11010111 11001100110 10110111100 01010111010 11111101 01001111100 10010010 1110100 11110 01010001010 001001 11010011 1001000101 1101101010 10110010111011 101101 1010011101001010 111010111011 11100101000101101
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 144
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 42
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (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; you is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word though is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ' is repeated).
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