This is an analysis of the poem Tarquin And Tullia that begins with:

In times when princes cancelled nature's law,
And declarations which themselves did draw; ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeeeccffgghheebbiiffeeeiiggbbXjXccceeeeeebbkkccllbbXggeXeeffllkkcccffeeeekkeecceeccggcchmeeccbbllnnbbccXceenniibbXeeeXjggnnggbbbooeemmaaffggccii
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 151,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 0111010101 1101010101 1101110001 1111110001 1001010101 1001110001 01010001001 0101110101 0101010001 01010110001 1101010101 11011100001 1101010100 1111010001 1011010101 1101011101 0101010101 0100110101 0111010101 0111010101 0101010101 0111110101 1011110101 0101110001 11010010101 1101001101 1101100101 1101001101 0111110101 1101011101 011101001 11010100001 0101001101 0101011101 01010100101 1111010001 1101111010 1101010101 0101110101 0101001101 11011111001 1101010001 1001111101 1001110001 1101010101 1001010101 1101101101 11001110101 0111010001 1101010101 1100010101 1011110001 1111011101 1111011101 11001010101 11001010001 11001011101 1110010101 110101101110 1101010101 11010100111 0101000111 1100001110 0101010101 10110010101 0101010101 1100011001 0101000101 1101111101 0101111101 0111110001 10010100100 1001010111 11110100001 0111000101 1111010001 0101110001 11110010101 11111100001 11001010001 1111010111 0101010111 0111011101 1111010101 1001110011 1001010001 1011010101 1101110101 0101010101 1001110001 10001000101 1001110001 10011010111 1001010001 0111010100 1101111100 01010010111 1100010111 1011001101 1011010101 01010011101 110010101001 11110100101 0101010101 1001000101 0101010101 0101010111 1011010101 0100101101 100010110101 11111101001 0101110001 1101010001 1101110001 1001110000 1101000101 00110010101 0101110101 1101010001 1011000101 1111010110 1101011101 1101010101 0101010101 0100110101 1111010101 0100010101 1001000101 1111011101 1001110001 1101111101 01010000101 1001010001 1101100001 0111111101 1101110111 1101011001 0111011101 01001010101 1001110100 1101010100 1101010101 1001010011 0101010101 0111010101 1101010101 1001010001 1111010001 0101011111 1101011101 1101000101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 6576
  • Average number of words per stanza: 1098
  • Amount of lines: 151
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • 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; to, and, his, as, her, in, their are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, a, to, by, when are repeated.

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