Bkii:Xi Don’t Ask by Horace: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem Bkii:Xi Don’t Ask that begins with:

Don’t ask what the warlike Spaniards are plotting,
or those Scythians, Quinctius Hirpinus,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXa XXbX Xcba XXaX ddXX dXcb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11101110110 111010100 010101010 1110100101 01011011110 11000111111 010011110 0101110101 10100011011010 10101111101 101110110 1001001010 11111110100 10010011011 110110010 1010100100 10011111111 100111100111 110100100 0110100101 1111101001 110010001001 011011001 1110100101
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 168
  • Average number of words per stanza: 30
  • Amount of lines: 24
  • Average number of symbols per line: 41 (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, her are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines us is repeated).

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