This is an analysis of the poem Morituri Salutamus: Poem For The Fiftieth Anniversary that begins with:
Tempora labuntur, tacitisque senescimus annis,
Et fugiunt freno non remorante dies. ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbbccdddda abbdd eeeeaaff aaggbbddfff gghhf fggeX ddggeeiigXjjffaa gXbbaa aaggccaahXgg ffffggaabbcX ddkkffggff ggccbb llffmmdd XXkkccffaaccff bbddbbddggffmm aaddaa ffaaeeffaaddffeXccddbX ggffcckk eeeXffXbkkggkkggffmX fXggggddff ggggXXkkgg aag
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,5,8,11,5,5,16,6,12,12,10,6,8,14,14,6,22,8,20,10,10,12,6,36,15,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 100100100100010 1101011001 1010011 111110101 0111101001 0001010101 0110010100 1101011101 1101111101 11010010111 0011111101 1101010101 1001110001 1101110101 0111111111 10010011101 0101001111 1111011111 1101010101 1101001101 1011111111 1101010111 1101010011 1111110101 0101110101 11010101001 1101011101 1101011111 1101100101 1100010101 1100011101 1111011111 0001011111 10110010001 1101010101 0101110101 0101010111 0101000101 1101010001 1101010101 11000100011 1101010101 1111111101 1111010100 1101111101 11111101100 0111010111 1100010101 1001010011 1001010101 1101010001 1101110111 1101011011 0111001101 1110111001 1011000101 1100111111 0001110111 1000010111 1010000101 1101010011 1011011111 1111010111 11000101110 11110011101 1111110101 0111111101 11101101010 1100011101 0001010101 1001010011 11010011101 1001110001 1101000101 1101001001 1101011101 0001010001 11011000101 1001010111 0101010101 110111011 1101010101 0011111101 1011100101 01001010111 010110001 1001010010 1110011101 1100110101 11001010110 1001000100 11011110001 1111110101 1111010101 1010110111 0111011001 11001010001 0100100001 1001110101 0100010111 00101010101 1101010101 1111010111 11011110111 01111110011 1001100111 1011000101 1100110111 1111110101 1101010111 1011010111 0101000101 1101010001 10110000101 1101010101 0101010101 1101010001 10010101111 1111010011 1111010101 10001010111 11001110011 1111011101 1011000101 101010010111 0101010001 1101010111 1001101101 1011100111 1101111111 1111011111 1011001101 0101010111 1011110101 0101011100 0001110101 11010010111 1101100101 11110101001 100111111 1101111101 1101010101 1111000101 0111001111 1001100101 1001010100 1101111101 1010010001 11001100101 1101011111 1101001111 1011010111 1101010101 011100100001 1100110011 1111110101 1100010101 0101010101 1010011111 1101010111 1101110101 1111010101 1101000111 100111001111 1111010101 1101111000 1101010111 1101111001 1101010101 10011101001 00101010101 1111011111 1101010101 1101011101 0101000101 1101010111 1101000101 01001100111 1101111101 1001110001 010011111 1111000101 1101010101 01010001111 1001010111 0101111101 010111110 0111110101 1101011101 1001100101 1101111111 0101110101 1011000101 1101010101 11000100101 0111010111 0101010101 01010010101 1111111101 1101110110011 1101101101 01011101100 0101011101 110111101 0101010011 0101010101 1101000111 1101110101 10111101001 0101100111 1101010101 01001010101 1001010111 1101010101 11000110110 0101001101 0101010111 10001010101 1111011101 1101010111 0100010101 0101010011 0100010101 11001010101 1111010101 1101001001 0101010101 01001010101 0111011111 11001010001 0101010101 1001100101 0101010101 0100010001 0101000101 1101010001 0101010101 11010011101 1111110101 0111111101 0011110011 10101110100 1011110100 10110011000 1101010010 1111011100 110011011 1110010001 10111001000 1101010101 111010001 0101110001 1101010111 1101101111 0001010011 1101110101 10010010001 1101110101 1100111111 0101000101 01010011101 01001010001 0111010011 1001010001 1101010011 1100110111 0001010101 0101010101 00111101010 10101011010 0101010100 1101010101 0111011101 0101110101 1111110111 0111001101 0111111111 1101010101 1001110111 1001011111 1100100111 1101011101 1001100101 1101011101 1101010011 1101100101 1101011101 010101010011
- Amount of stanzas: 25
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 514
- Average number of words per stanza: 88
- Amount of lines: 302
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; and, ye, or, what, of, you, bold, better, i, to, vanish, at, not are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words what, and, so, vanish, with, the are repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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