This is an analysis of the poem Invitation: To Fabullus that begins with:

You’ll dine well, in a few days, with me,
if the gods are kind to you, my dear Fabullus,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXabXXcXbaccc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Metre: 111001101 001110111100 1011100101 111010101 111111110 111111100 0111111100 10101011 101100001101 110010110 111100111 110101110 111101101 01110011
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 557
  • Average number of words per stanza: 116
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 39 (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, and are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.

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