Bkii:Xiv Eheu Fugaces by Horace: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem Bkii:Xiv Eheu Fugaces that begins with:

Oh how the years fly, Postumus, Postumus,
they’re slipping away, virtue brings no respite...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXa bXXX cbdb dXdb ebXa XdcX XeXa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11001100100 11001101110 001011011 01011100100 11011001101 100110110010 10011010 101010101 111001011110 01011101110 1001011011 0110101010 01101010011 00101001010 011010111 0100110110 01001110010 11010010010 01011100 101001011 01001111101 10010111101 101010110 0110101010 01001011100 11001011010 110100101 1011101010
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 164
  • Average number of words per stanza: 29
  • Amount of lines: 28
  • 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; we, in are repeated.

    The author used the same word we at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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