Poem Analysis of Bkiii:I Odi Profanum by Horace for close reading

This is an analysis of the poem Bkiii:I Odi Profanum that begins with:

I hate the vulgar crowd, and keep them away:
grant me your silence. A priest of the Muses,...

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Rhyme scheme: Xaba aacd aXXe ecfg XahX aXda Xach adbe hgda cXch fcXX XiiX
Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
Guessed form: unknown form
Metre: 11010111001 11110010010 110110101 1101111011 01001110110 001011101101 110010010 0101001001 01111011010 10101010010 111001010 0100011110 10011011010 10100101001 010111010 10010111001 01001101110 00101101011 010110010 01101001011 1111010101 01010010100 101011001 1010101101 11101110010 01001111001 1010100110 1010100110 10101011011 10100111101 101001011 1001101010 01111010100 11110101001 010011101 1010100010 11110110011 10111111011 011101101 0101011110 10101001110 10101010110 01011100 1100110010 11110101010 10101001110 111110110 10100100111
Amount of stanzas: 12
Average number of symbols per stanza: 168
Average number of words per stanza: 31
Amount of lines: 48
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; i, of, that, and, nor are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, or, nor are repeated.

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Bkiii:I Odi Profanum by Horace: poem analysis

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