Poem Analysis of Bkiii:Xx The Conflict by Horace for close reading

This is an analysis of the poem Bkiii:Xx The Conflict that begins with:

Pyrrhus, you can’t see how dangerous it is
to touch the Gaetulian lioness’ cub?...

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Rhyme scheme: aXXb XXaa aabX XXXa
Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
Сlosest stanza type: tercets
Guessed form: unknown form
Metre: 10111110000 010100101 11010011110 01001 1111011010 10101011110 01001100101 11100 11110111101 101000101010 11010110011 01011 11100101001 1001011110 11101111010 10101
Amount of stanzas: 4
Average number of symbols per stanza: 165
Average number of words per stanza: 29
Amount of lines: 16
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; in is repeated.

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Bkiii:Xx The Conflict by Horace: poem analysis

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