This is an analysis of the poem Bkiv:Iv Drusus And The Claudians that begins with:

Like the winged agent of the bright lightning-bolt,
to whom Jove granted power over wandering...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcd ceaa fagg hiXd jeef febe kdeX dfef kkjl ceiX mXee jeXd died ideg XlfX kede Xaem Xdmf Xeeh
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10110001101 011101010100 110011111 100101101 11010101101 100101001011 010110101 1011101010 10010101101 10101101101 101110111 0101101011 10101010011 01101011001 000010011 1101010001 101010101 10100101111 011100101 1011110100 10101110101 01101101111 010101111 0101011100 11010111100 10010010011 101010010 0101001011 10110101010 11100101011 100101010 1011111010 01111001010 10101001010 101001101 1001101011 01001001011 01110010110 010100111 111011110 01101001010 1110011100 1001001011 1111101001 1101110010 01011010101 0111000 0101111101 11110010001 01101110101 010010101 1001001101 11110101001 1110101111 101011101 0010100111 10011111100 11101010111 110111010 0010101010 10101111100 01110101101 111010101 11011001 10010010100 01001010010 01101101 1011010010 11111100010 100101010110 010011100 1110100010 1010110010101 01011010101 0100101111 1011011001
  • Amount of stanzas: 19
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 167
  • Average number of words per stanza: 29
  • Amount of lines: 76
  • 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; his is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word of is repeated.

    The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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