This is an analysis of the poem Certain Books Of Virgil's Aeneis: Book Ii that begins with:

BOOK II
They whisted all, with fixed face attent, ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: X XabcXdXefXgfaedfh efXbXfiahjf XcXkehibdciXhXXiflacalajc lgfkhfhcfhadX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,17,11,25,13,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 11 110101110 1110000101 1101110010 1101011001 1101011101 01001110101 1101111110 1101111011 1001110101 1100111100 11100110 1111100101 1101010101 1111010101 011111101 1001011101 1101110101 011011001 0111011100 1101110100 011111101 1001100010 0101010001 110101101 0110110011 0011111001 1011101011 01010110 1101111100 1101111101 1101110111 1001000101 1001100101 1101110111 1011110101 101010101 0111110101 0101010001 0101100101 1101110101 1111101101 1001010110 1011100110 11010100001 110110101 0101011101 1101010101 1001110101 1001010101 1001110001 0010100101 1111010111 1011010101 1110011101 101100010 1011110100 1111010101 11011100001 1101011101 0101010101 1001100101 10110000111 01110110111 1111010111 10011101000 1101111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 569
  • Average number of words per stanza: 102
  • Amount of lines: 70
  • Average number of symbols per line: 40 (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; what, and, our are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words what, and, the, here are repeated.

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