This is an analysis of the poem Bkiv:Viii Poetry that begins with:

I’d give bowls, generously, and pleasing bronzes,
to all of my comrades, my dear Censorinus,...

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXXbbcdceefeafcgXafaaaXbXaedbXaafg
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 34,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1111100011010 010111111000 1111101011011 11101001011 010010001001 10011100010 010010010010 110010101101 111110111011 11110110010 101010010011 010101001001 011011010010 111101111001 011000110010 011010011011 100010001010 111000011010 011100100100 10111010010 11101001111 001010110101 10100010110 10010100110 010110110100 10101001001 100001001001 001101010110 0100110101100 100101001111 10110011001 111110010010 1100110001101 110110010011
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1632
  • Average number of words per stanza: 296
  • Amount of lines: 34
  • Average number of symbols per line: 47 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; my, in, and, s, of are repeated.

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