This is an analysis of the poem Bkiv:V To Augustus that begins with:
Son of the blessed gods, and greatest defender
of Romulus’ people, you’ve been away too long:...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXc dbbe cfgc cgea effX edcX XccX ccdf dcbc fXdd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 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: 10011110010 010010100111 111011100010 10001010 11011011001 111110101010 111010101100 10111110 10100111011 1001101001100 111100111101 10010101 00100111101 010100101001 110001100100 01011010 101010010010 101100101001 110010101001 10100101 011000110100 110100100101 101111111110 11000111 1101010110 111011101001 010011100110 00100100 1001100101011 111001001010 011100100111 11110101 11010100101 111110100111 101001000100 10110101 11101100101 111111101001 111111001101 10110010
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 182
- Average number of words per stanza: 33
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; of, who, ll, his are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word that is repeated.
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More information about poems by Horace
- Analysis of Bkiv:Ii Augustus’s Return
- Analysis of Bkiv:Vii Diffugere Nives
- Analysis of Bkiii:Xiv Augustus Returns
