This is an analysis of the poem Home Truths For Varus’s Girl: To Varus that begins with:

Varus drags me into his affairs
out of the Forum, where I’m seen idling:...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abXXcdeXfacgadeXhciegXhXhfiXjXjbh
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 33,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 101100001 10010111100 001011010001 110100011010 1111111 0101001011 1001100111 10100100101 110011011 110010111 011001001001 11010010 110110100 110111111 1111110101 11011110010 111111011 110011110 111101 1111110111 111010010 01010111 10110101111 1111110010100 11011110010 01010111001 111111110000 1010111011 1001101 101011110001 11011110111011 1111101010 10111000001
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1375
  • Average number of words per stanza: 265
  • Amount of lines: 33
  • 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; i, to are repeated.

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