This is an analysis of the poem From: Horace To: Phyllis Subject: Invitation that begins with:
Horace: Book IV, Ode 11
"Est mihi nonum superantis annum--"...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X X XXaa bbcc aaXX ddcX eeff eeaa ddXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,1,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101111 1010101000101 1010101 1011 101011110 10111010 1110101 1010101 1010001 1010101 1110111 1010001 101010000 10101010 1111001 0011101 1101010 1101110 1110101 1010001 10111011 10101011 101101 0101111 10110001 10100111 1001101 10100111 11011100 1111010
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 102
- Average number of words per stanza: 17
- Amount of lines: 31
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines you, was are repeated).
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