This is an analysis of the poem Lines On General Robert Edward Lee that begins with:
Si veris magna paratur
Fama bonis, et se successu nuda remoto... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXX X aabbccddeeXXbbffffXaggggffggccbbhhffggiiddbbeejjggbbXfkkffjj
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,1,60,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 11010100 101011110010100 10001010100010 1001001 10 11010100111 11011000001 0111010101 1101010011 010010111001 100010010101 0111010101 11010110001 1111010101 1101010101 11010101100 110010100101 1101010101 0101010101 11001010001 11100001001 01001100101 1101010101 110001111000 11010000101 1101000101 0101010101 1101010101 0101010101 1111010101 01010101001 0101011001 11110101001 1011011101 11001010101 0111110101 1101000111 11000110001 1101010101 11010101001 11001000101 0101010101 0101010101 0111010101 100110110011 1101110101 0111011101 1010010101 11110010101 0101111101 1101010101 1011010101 110111100 0101010101 1101011101 0101110110 0110010101 1101010101 01011111001 1111010001 1101010101 1111010101 1101011111 1101010011 1111011101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 913
- Average number of words per stanza: 149
- Amount of lines: 65
- 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; in, with, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
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