This is an analysis of the poem The Aeneid (Excerpts) that begins with:

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Laude, honor, prasingis, thankis infynite...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXaXaXXXbXcXdXeX eX aX XX XX cX dX XX eX XX fX XX gX gX XX hX XX XX XX XX XX fX eX eX XX XX XX XX XX XX gX gX cX XX aX XX XX XX XX XX bX bX iX i XXX XdXdXdXdXjXaXcXcXXX XX XX XX hX XX XX XX dX XX hX hX jX XX XX X X
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 19,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,1,3,19,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,1,1,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1 11010010100 1 0011101110 1 110010010101 1 1010110100 1 11011001 1 1100110110 1 10101101101 1 10101010111 1 1001001101101 1 11011101101 1 1111010100 1 111011100 1 1010110011 1 11001010111 1 010010100111 1 10011101010 1 1101010111 1 0100110110 1 10111011011 1 0110110101 1 0111110101 1 01011011101 1 1100110101 1 11111110111 1 11010101111 1 11001101011 1 110010101110 1 110100101110 1 1111001100 1 1110101101 1 11001110111 1 1110111111 1 11010010100 1 0111010100 1 11010011100 1 11001110100 1 100110110110 1 1011111011 1 1111010101 1 0110111101 1 10110100100 1 1011100100 1 1100110101 1 1110001100 1 1111101001 1 1110010100 1 1001101111 1 1111110101 1 11111001110 1 11111010100 1 1101100011 1 1001111001 011010001 101100111 10001011 1 11011100100 1 0101110101 1 110101101 1 000111011 1 1011110100 1 01001001011 1 0111001101 1 011010100101 1 11100101110 1 10011111111 1 10100110100 1 111001100 1 11000101101 1 11101101011 1 110101000011 1 10001000101 1 01111001101 1 1111110110 1 0111110101 1 110111011 1 01011100111 1 1010100111 1 10100100110 1 1111101101 101010
  • Amount of stanzas: 63
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 58
  • Average number of words per stanza: 10
  • Amount of lines: 157
  • Average number of symbols per line: 23 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 4
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, my, and are repeated.

    The author used the same words with, or, my, bot at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    The poet repeated the same words 0, 12 at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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  • summary of The Aeneid (Excerpts);
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  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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