This is an analysis of the poem Bkii:I To Pollio, Writing His History Of The Civil Wars that begins with:
You’re handling the Civil Wars, since Metellus
was Consul, the causes, errors, and stages,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabX aaaa XXbc bacX abaa aded XXXa Xbef aeaeXafab
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110001011100 11001010110 101101010 010101100 1011010010 0111010011 111101010 1010010010 110101100101 001001111010 100101111 0100100100 11001001010 100010010010 101011010 0010101010 01011011001 01001011010 010010010 1011011010 11101010010 11011001001 110101101 1101001010 10111100100 11000010101 11001000100 0011000100 11110100101 011001100010 1001101101 1010010010 11011010001 10111110101 010011101 1111101111 1111101101 11110001001 110101010 0101110010
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 164
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- 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, of, to are repeated.
The author used the same word what at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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