This is an analysis of the poem Bkii:X The Golden Mean that begins with:
You’ll live more virtuously, my Murena,
by not setting out to sea, while you’re in dread...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xabc Xdde acbd feXg hgXh fbXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111001100 11101011101 001110101 11010 01010100101 100101000101 11000101010 10110 01111010101 100110110010 11010010110 1101 01101011101 10010010100 110011101000 10110 100101010101 01110101010 10010100111 11001 01111010100 11101110111 111011100 01001
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 149
- Average number of words per stanza: 28
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (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 is repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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