This is an analysis of the poem Bki:Xxxiii Tibullus, Don’t Grieve that begins with:
Tibullus, don’t grieve too much, when you remember
your cruel Glycera, and don’t keep on singing...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbb aaXc aXcc XXcX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 100111111010 110100111110 110100111110 10110101 10100010110110 011101010110 10110011110 0101001 11001011110 110101010010 101001001011 10010101 111101010111 1100101010 1111101101 1101001
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 171
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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