This is an analysis of the poem The Goths In Campania (Placidia, In The Tent Of Adolphus.) that begins with:

I.
I am not Roman when he looks upon me... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: a aXbcdefdgbhidXbbXjdjdaidhidchklijchambh gnefkdk XXbdedibbcoiiXkebanXp XApXiaXmqXipXcq Adap XjplmhpXXomdbnbgdpadkiplkbbbbXihiljiXbjXcXdp
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,39,7,21,15,4,44,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1 11110111011 0111010101 10110101010 1101010001 11110101110 01010100100 110111001010 01010101010 11110101010 1011001011 111000100010 1111001101 11010101010 1111010011 11110001010 1101010111 11111100010 01011100100 10010100110 1101111001 11011001010 1110010101 11111111011 0101010111 1001010010 1001010101 11010111010 1111111111 10010011110 11010100101 01010001010 1101010101 11100101010 0100110001100 111101010100 0101010101 01010101010 1000101000 11010101010 0011110101 11010100010 0100010100 10010111010 0101110101 10110001010 1111011001 1 11110111110 0111110101 11110101010 1100010100 10010111010 1100010001 10111101010 10001001001 01010111010 0100110101 10100101010 0101000101 01111001100 01111100111 11011101010 1101110101 11010101011 0100010001 11011101010 1111100101 1 11010011011 1101011101 110101000010 1110110111 110111001111 1101000100 11011101000 0100011101 11111100011 0101010101 11111101010 011001000 111111001010 1111000101 11010011011 01110101001 11100100111 0101110101 1 11110111010 01010101001 01001111010 0101010111 1011110010 1010010101 11011101010 11010010101 10011101010 1001110101 01010001010 1011011101 010100100010 1101000100 01010101010 0111011111 10010101110 11111101001 01011001010 1111011101 11110101010 1111110101 11010111010 0101111101 11010001110 11010100101 01010100110 10110011001 0100100010010 1100011101 111111011100 11010011101 11010101010 0101110100 010011101010 0101010101 01010101010 11010100100 11101001100 1101110101 11110001010 1101011011
  • Amount of stanzas: 8
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 677
  • Average number of words per stanza: 121
  • Amount of lines: 130
  • 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; of, and, in, my, i, not, nor, to are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, and, none, for, to, god are repeated.

    The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase i connects the lines.

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