This is an analysis of the poem His Monument that begins with:
Horace: Book III, Ode 30
"Exegi monumentum aere perennius---"...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X X aabb ccdd XXee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,1,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 101111 1000100011001 01001111010011 110010100110011 11010101100101 01000111010101 111101010101010 010111010101010 11111111010101 01010101110101 11101101111001 1111001010100 0111100110101 111101010100101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 151
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 15
- Average number of symbols per line: 50 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, me, fame are repeated.
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