This is an analysis of the poem Bki:Xviii Wine that begins with:
Cultivate no plant, my Varus, before the rows of sacred vines,
set in Tibur’s gentle soil, and by the walls Catilus founded:...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXaXbXabXXaaXXb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011111001010101 1010101110110010 0101011111111101 1111110101010100 1011101011011100 111010110111010 1101010101010101 1010101010101011 1010011101010110 111110111101010 1010110010110110 1101010101010111 1101010011010001 111110011010111 1111010111010111 1101010011010101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1048
- Average number of words per stanza: 194
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 65 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 12
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, and, to are repeated.
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