This is an analysis of the poem From “odi Barbare” that begins with:

XXIV
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  • Rhyme scheme: XabXX cdeX efdg eXgh XihX XXce Xjffe fjaX iafk elhX mnon cfaX Xfelc dddX dbaf kffg jddf dmdf Xjeei lfha nkfj aXXX ofdk Xhja
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,4,4,4,4,4,5,4,4,4,4,4,5,4,4,4,4,4,5,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1 10111001010 101110111010 10101001010 10010 10111110010 10110011010 10101101001 10010 10001001010 10011001010 1111110010 11010 10110100011 11111001010 10111011001 10010 10111011010 11111111011 10101010001 10100 10101001000 10101000010 1001001010 10011 1 11111001011 10111101010 111110010010 10011 10111001010 10101101010 1001111010 10010 10101101010 10101001010 10110001010 10010 111110001010 10010101011 10011111110 100110 101110101011 00111001010 11110101011 10110 100110001110 11111001010 10110001010 10100 1 11011101010 10111011001 01101001011 11110 10111001011 10001001010 10111001011 11010 11111101010 111001011010 11110111010 11011 10110111111 10111111111 101010101010 10110 11110101011 10111101011 10110101010 01010 10111101011 11101001011 10110011010 11010 1 11111101010 10110011110 11111101110 0111 101011010111 01010001010 10101001010 10010 10001111111 1011101010 01101111111 10110 111111110010 1011101000 10111010 10100 10101101111 10101001010 11101001010 10010 1111100111 10100001010 11111101010 10110
  • Amount of stanzas: 24
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 164
  • Average number of words per stanza: 26
  • Amount of lines: 100
  • Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines it is repeated).

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The words/phrases dancing, singing connect the lines.

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