This is an analysis of the poem Propertius's Bid For Immortality that begins with:
Horace: Book III, Ode 3
"Carminis interea nostri redæmus in orbem---"...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X X aabb bbXa ccdd eeff eeee aacc ggXh iibb jjjhXjjjj
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,1,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101111 100010010100101 11011101 01010101 11110101 11011101 111100001 110010101 1100010100 00110101 11110101 1010101 01111101 11010101 11010101 01110101 01010001 11000101 11011101 01011101 11010111 11011101 1010011 11110101 111111001 11011101 01011101 11011101 110010 10011100 11011101 110011101 110010101 00110100 01001101 01011111 10011111 01010100 110111101 010010011 11111101 11110111
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 120
- Average number of words per stanza: 22
- Amount of lines: 43
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; nor is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
The author used the same word they at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Propertius's Bid For Immortality;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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