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:...

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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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