This is an analysis of the poem Bki:Xxxvi Numida’s Back Again that begins with:
With music, and incense, and blood
of a bullock, delight in placating the gods...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXX bcXd ddac XXbb baXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01010111 001001011001 11011001 101111001011 10001010 1100111110111 101000100 11111001110 11001010 101011010110 11001111 11111001010 11110100 101100100101 11111110 101101010110 11111001 110011001010 01110001 101101010010
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 159
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words their, no are repeated.
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