What A Book! : To Calvus The Poet by Gaius Valerius Catullus: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem What A Book! : To Calvus The Poet that begins with:

If I didn’t love you more than my eyes,
most delightful Calvus, I’d dislike you...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcdefXXfgXcXdXXgXXaXXbe
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 24,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 011111111 10101011011 10100110001 1101111011 001101010 1011110110 11111010 10111100100 110110101 111010011 111010110 1110100101 1110101100 111010001 101001001000 111101001 11010111 0010101010 10100100 1001001 1101110100 111111011 11010111 110011010
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 912
  • Average number of words per stanza: 177
  • Amount of lines: 24
  • Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7

  • 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.

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

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