This is an analysis of the poem Numa Pompilius that begins with:
O well is thee! King Numa,
Within thy secret cave,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabacdedfghgXbebXiXijklkXkXk mXjXjdedmaXXembmcbnbkjdjnjejldjdjmkmeeoebimieejejbXbheoeookoebmbnkekfmXmekgX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 28,76,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101110 011101 11111010 111001 11110010 010011 10101010 110101 110010 111101 10001010 010001 1001010 0111001 1101010 011101 1111110 110101 1110010 111101 0111010 0101101 0101110 110011 1010011 110101 1101010 111101 101011101 010100100 10101010 110101 1101010 110111 10110010 111111 1011001 111101 1101110 110101 0111010 110111 1111110 110101 0111010 010101 1111011 0010101 0111110 110101 1101111 110101 1101110 1101001 1111010 111101 1111110 111101 1111010 110101 1101101 011101 1101110 010101 0111010 010101 1100011 011101 0101010 110101 0111010 111101 1111110 110101 1111010 010101 1110010 111111 1101010 110101 1101011 010101 1111011 111101 1111011 110101 0111010 111111 0011010 110101 1101010 0101101 1111110 110101 10111110 110101 1011110 111101 1100110 110101 1111010 010111 1011011 0110010
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1453
- Average number of words per stanza: 269
- Amount of lines: 104
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, to, of, be, you are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, the, i, with, they, how are repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase you connects the lines.
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