This is an analysis of the poem Bkiii:Xix Let’s Drink that begins with:

You can tell me the years between
Inachus and Codrus, who wasn’t afraid to...

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  • Rhyme scheme: abXc cdXX cXef geXe gXXh aXfXXbbhd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,9,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11110001 10011011010 1101010 11011011101 11111111 10101111010 11011111 11011101001 11100111 0011100010100 01010110 110101001010 010010101 001101001111 11011001 110100101001 11101101 11010010001 10101001 101101100101 10111101 101101110010 11010110 101111111110 1101011 100100100111 11101101 1011110011110
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 166
  • Average number of words per stanza: 32
  • Amount of lines: 28
  • 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; to, you are repeated.

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

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