This is an analysis of the poem Bki:Xxix Off To The Wars that begins with:

Iccius, are you gazing with envy, now,
at Arabian riches, and preparing...

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXbX cdXX cabb bXbd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1011100101 10100101010 110110101 0101011110 1101010 00111110010 110010010 101011111 10101101010 10101111011 100010010 1100101001 11111001101 101110100 101010101 1010010010
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 159
  • Average number of words per stanza: 28
  • Amount of lines: 16
  • Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of is repeated.

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