This is an analysis of the poem Bkiii:V No Surrender that begins with:

We believe thunderous Jupiter rules the sky:
Augustus is considered a god on earth,...

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXbc dceb XXbe fcgd hebb eiei eegj cjXX bgfk ehbf bffg fXkg ceak kfbX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 101100100101 01000100111 110010111 01001001100 1101010110 00100110101 101001111 0010010110 101001101 01011101110 1010101101 1010010101 1001101100 11010010010 101000010 111001001 01101010110 111011011 101000110 1100101001 1101011010 01111001110 101111110 1010101001 111111010011 011101111 101011110 1001010110 11101101010 10010101001 101111001 1011011101 11010100100 11110001010 110110101 0101001010 11111011101 01010111110 101100101 0100010100 011101010110 10101101010 110110101 0010111010 010010010010 11000110101 101111100 0110101011 11110100100 10101111101 010101001 1010101010 10011010110 11100100010 110110011 110000100
  • Amount of stanzas: 14
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 163
  • Average number of words per stanza: 29
  • Amount of lines: 56
  • 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, that, to, his, he are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, to are repeated.

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