This is an analysis of the poem Bki:Xxxv To Fortune that begins with:
O goddess, who rules our lovely Antium,
always ready to lift up our mortal selves,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xaba XcXd cXef bgah faab hahi acia cgda eggjXdaja
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101111010 11100111101 010010110 1100100010 01100011110 0101110010 010110100 100100101 10110100100 1011011110 100100110 1011010111 01101001010 001011011001 010100101 1100010100 10100111011 11100011010 001110110 10101101010 11011110100 01101010101 010111100 1001101010 10010110101 10111011111 001010010 0101011010 11101110101 0101111011 011101101 0110010111 01010111100 11110111111 110011101 1101111110 010011101011 01111111110 111011110 010101010
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 170
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, s, what, our are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words her, what are repeated.
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