This is an analysis of the poem Mute Discourse that begins with:

“Fulmina. . . . coelo nulla sereno.”
—LUCRETIUS.... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: X X aXbcadXeefgahiejXfkldekhbjcXikejXkkkfffk lkffXmnejnbbkmoffkkjfjjpokokqmkfijrobafrfseteak fbocjsojocebiksjtrbcajkgpjstkjeckjkoskapskefjsa kmeXfopaijefXkogotpjajacfjdgkofjtssjiqbojjfomsfXoaaddmoksfffahkhpkbkfosaacjbctrhcba
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,1,40,47,47,83,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1001010010 100 1111010101 1101011111 1101001101 11010010100 1111110111 1101110101 0101111000 1101010101 1101010001 1101010101 11010101010 0101011001 1001010101 1110011101 11110111001 1010011011 1111011101 0101010100 11110111001 01010111010 1000011111 1011110111 11 11010101 0100010101 1101010100 1101111111 0101010010 0101001111 1100011001 0111010101 1001011111 0101010101 1101000100 1101111011 1101010101 0101001001 010100101001 11010010001 1111010101 11010101010 110101011 1101010101 1100011001 1011010101 1011010101 0101010111 0001100111 0100010101 1101000101 0101000101 0111111100 1101100101 0111110101 010010010001 1101000101 11011001010 1001011101 0101010101 1100010101 0101010101 1101010101 01110111011 11101110101 0101000101 1111010111 0101010101 11000101001 1101010101 0101110101 0111010101 1001010001 1101010001 0101010101 1100010101 1101010111 1101010111 1001101101 1111010111 010111010011 10001010100 1111100101 0101000101 1011110111 0101010001 1100111101 0101010101 0101011100 1101110110 0101010111 1010011101 1100110101 0001011111 0101110111 0101011101 1000010101 0100010010 1111100001 0101011101 0101010011 1111010101 1111010101 0101010111 0101010111 01001010101 01000100011 11010001001 1001010101 110011001011 10111010111 1101100100 1100010011 1100011101 01111000101 1111111111 1101011101 01001010101 01010100101 0101100011 1101010001 1001111101 0111010001 1001001101 1101010111 0100110101 0001010101 010001001101 11010010101 1101010100 0101100100 0110110111 1101010111 1001110111 0101001001 0101110101 11111101001 1111011111 1011 110111 0101001101 1101010011 0101000101 1111010111 11001001011 1101101101 01111101101 11110101000 1101001001 1101110101 1101111100 11110010011 0101011111 111101111 1101010101 0111110101 1111110001 01001010111 0111001111 1011010101 11011000101 11001011101 0101010100 1101000101 10010011101 11110001001 0101011101 0101000101 1101001111 0101100100 0111010101 1110010101 11101010111 10010110111 110101101 1110010101 1011100111 11010100001 1100011001 1101000111 0101010001 1101010101 1110010101 11010000111 1101110101 11000011101 1101010111 0100011101 1111110111 1101011100 1100011101 11010101111 1001001101 1101010111 0111111101 1111000101 1001010101 1101010101 11110100101 1111010101 111110101 0100010101 11011111001 1011010001 110111010011 01000010101 1100010101 01001101000 1101000111 0111010101 1101011111 1111001101 1100111101 1101001101 0111110101 1101011101 110010011010
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1280
  • Average number of words per stanza: 231
  • Amount of lines: 218
  • Average number of symbols per line: 40 (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; who, and, in, of, its, our are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words who, whose, he, that, and, the, in, though are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines line is repeated).

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