Bkiv:Xi Maecenas’ Birthday by Horace: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem Bkiv:Xi Maecenas’ Birthday that begins with:

I’ve a jar of Alban wine over nine years
old: and there’s parsley for weaving your garlands,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXXb cXdX daec XfgX cXaa dhda fgXi XXghXibde
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10101011010 111010110110 001010111001 01010 01110100111 011010010010 01101100101 01011 11110011101 01111101101 110010010110 11001 11111011001 010001011010 10110101010 01110 01001011111 10011111111 01011010010 01000 01110011110 100110101101 11011110010 01001 11001001010 111001001010 00100101000 01010 11010010011 0100101111 0111111110 11111 11111101010 11101010110 1010010010 11011
  • Amount of stanzas: 9
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 157
  • Average number of words per stanza: 30
  • Amount of lines: 36
  • Average number of symbols per line: 38 (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; with, and, that, for are repeated.

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