Poem Analysis of Bkiv:I Venus, Be Merciful by Horace for close reading

This is an analysis of the poem Bkiv:I Venus, Be Merciful that begins with:

Venus now you’ve returned again
to battles long neglected. Please, oh please, spare me....

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Rhyme scheme: abcd ddXa efgf hgdc XdiX icgX jdjd ekdd bhjkXajdd
Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
Сlosest stanza type: tercets
Guessed form: unknown form
Metre: 10110101 010101011111 111001001 100111110100 10100110 11111001101 11011010 10011011001 01010111 101101010010 0101001 011010101110 11101110 111110011010 10100101 111011010111 11111010 010100101111 11110101 011010100101 11101111 010010011110 0010001 101001110101 11101101 1101110011011 10101111 00101011010 10111111 111001010010 11101010 111101101010 11110001 111011110101 11111100 110000101110 01111101 111100110101 10010101 110101010010
Amount of stanzas: 10
Average number of symbols per stanza: 166
Average number of words per stanza: 31
Amount of lines: 40
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, he, s, and, nor, why, you are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, nor are repeated.

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Bkiv:I Venus, Be Merciful by Horace: poem analysis

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