This is an analysis of the poem Moriturus Te Salutat that begins with:
These words that may not reach your heart
Are wrung from mine in bitter pain,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababa cdcdc ecece
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: rondeau
- Metre: 11111111 11010101 11010111 10111101 01010011 01001101 10110111 11001001 011110001 01010011 11111111 10111101 111100011 11011101 10111111
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 175
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 15
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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; you is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
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