This is an analysis of the poem Bkiv:Xiv Drusus And Tiberius that begins with:

What care the Citizens and the Senators
shall take in immortalising your virtues,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabc acXd dXdd efXX eaea agXg hXXa Xbdb iXiX feie ahgX cbhe Xcgc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11010010100 11010000110 101110010 0101010011 10010010011 10010110111 1100101000 1011011111 10110110010 010010100101 010101001 1011100010 10100011111 1000101010 11100100 100100110 011000101010 001001101011 011010110 1011111010 001000110101 101010011110 001001111 01011010110 11101001110 1001010010 101011010 0100110101 11001010100 10010001100 100011011 1111000011 10101001010 11111110100 101010110 1000101000 01001010010 0100110001 101011010 1101010010 01010100101 01001011010 10110010 0100101001 01101010011 01011011010 010101010 0101010010 10100110101 10100100111 100010010 1010101001
  • Amount of stanzas: 13
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 161
  • Average number of words per stanza: 26
  • Amount of lines: 52
  • Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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