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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