This is an analysis of the poem The Doughboy's Horace that begins with:
Horace: Book III, Ode 9
"Donec eram gratus tibi--"...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X X a bbcc a ddee a aacc f ggee a ddcc f eXhh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,1,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101111 1001010111 1011110011 11110111 11010011 11100101 11011110 1001001111 11010101 01011111 11111111 11110111 10 11010101 01010101 01111001 11010111 100 11110101 01011101 11111111 01110111 10 01110101 11110101 01110000 11111111 100 110011011 110101011 11010101 111011111
- Amount of stanzas: 14
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 70
- Average number of words per stanza: 14
- Amount of lines: 33
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- 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; i is repeated.
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