This is an analysis of the poem Bki:X To Mercury that begins with:

Mercury, eloquent grandson of Atlas,
I’ll sing of you, who wise with your training, shaped...

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  • Rhyme scheme: abaa ccdb aXec eXXX fXfd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10010011010 11011101101 010000101111 01011 001010010100 011011011010 10010110101 01001 111011001001 01101010110 11100010110 10010 101011011100 1111010110 10010101001 10010 11100100101 01001001011 01100010010 10101
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 157
  • Average number of words per stanza: 27
  • Amount of lines: 20
  • Average number of symbols per line: 38 (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; of, you are repeated.

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