This is an analysis of the poem Bki:Ii To Augustus that begins with:

The Father’s sent enough dread hail
and snow to earth already, striking...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XabX ccXd ddXd dXbe fXXc dbdg cdde ggdX Xdcf chdd ecdf aXXf hfXf
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 01010111 110101010 10101001 01010 11010101 1110101 1100111 01110 11010101 11000101 10100111 01010 11010101 11000101 10010101 01010 11110110 00010110 1001111 01010 110101110 10011010 110101010 10101 11101011 101001010 0111010 101010 10100010 10111111 11101110 110010 110101000 01011010 11011110 01010 11000101 110111010 101101010 11100 111101010 10111010 11100011 10010 11100111 010100100 11011101 01001 11001010 010111110 10101110 11110
  • Amount of stanzas: 13
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 122
  • Average number of words per stanza: 22
  • Amount of lines: 52
  • Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • 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; you is repeated.

    The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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