This is an analysis of the poem A Warning: To Aurelius that begins with:
I commend myself and my love to you,
Aurelius. I ask for modest indulgence,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcXXdbbefXceXXffda
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 19,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011111101 10011110010 1011010010011 101100110 101011001 11100101001 0111011001 1010110 100101111 100010111 10011111011 11110101111 101101010011 1010011110 011011111 1111110010 11100110101 011011011101 10011011
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 788
- Average number of words per stanza: 153
- Amount of lines: 19
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you, to, and, as are repeated.
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