This is an analysis of the poem Bki:Viii: To Lydia: Stop Ruining Sybaris! that begins with:
Lydia, by all the gods,
say why you’re set on ruining poor Sybaris, with passion:...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcb dXXX Xaca XcdX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1001101 111111001100010 1110011 010101110000111 1111010 0010111101011010 0010101 111101010101111 01001001 101011101011110 1111010 110010100100101 1111111 0101110110111110 10110 111010010010101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 180
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; why, he are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word with is repeated.
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