This is an analysis of the poem Translation From Catullus that begins with:
AD LESBIAM
Equal to Jove that youth must be--... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X aabbbbccaabbddXXeeddff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,22,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110 10011110 10111101 11010001 01011101 11110101 11011101 01011111 01111101 11011101 11011111 110000101 10011101 11111111 11011101 111101100 01010111 110100101 11010101 11010101 11110101 11110101 11010101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 406
- Average number of words per stanza: 71
- Amount of lines: 23
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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; my is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words that, my are repeated.
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