This is an analysis of the poem Bkiii:Xxix Fortune that begins with:

Maecenas, son of Etruscan kings, a jar
of mellow wine, that nobody’s touched, awaits...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcb dXbe ccXf ghgi jXcc cbbc bkbk lcib cXmi ccic ddim ceej bcfe cljX caXXXcdmh
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10010010101 01011100101 111110110 1101111001 01010111110 10011010100 1011001001 0100011010 0101000010 11100100101 110101101 1011010101 01100100101 11001011101 010100110 1010101010 0101010001 101010101110 101101001 1010100101 10100010110 1011011010 0101000101 11001001001 1100011101 11001010110 10111010 1111001110 01110010111 01001111110 111010101 0100010010 10110010010 10011010101 10001111 0010111001 10101010111 01000100010 101001101 1010101010 11010110111 11110110101 101001001 1101010011 11110110011 11111101010 101101110 0101010010 10101001010 01001001001 111001001 1101110110 11011110110 01110101111 110101110 1001011110 10111001001 0111010101 11100110 11010101111 00101110110 10110010101 101010010 1001011011
  • Amount of stanzas: 16
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 166
  • Average number of words per stanza: 30
  • Amount of lines: 64
  • Average number of symbols per line: 41 (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; of, and, to, her, she are repeated.

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