This is an analysis of the poem Pharsalia - Book V: The Oracle. The Mutiny. The Storm that begins with:
Thus had the smiles of Fortune and her frowns
Brought either chief to Macedonian shores...
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- Rhyme scheme: aaabcbdbeedfbgh gegbijaecbkkebdhdXaaeXlhmbhaelbgkkijaXaba aadhabecbbadfhngda ngkgoe aaeegckaadgdgilmbbX aeehkhpXjmadqboamX kbikkabeirmkebkabbkgdkar akegeblbebhebgkekjrbabkkhaarigkbaeeknkagblkisacbmeebdeajdtkbgekhjkeobgpebracmladgeeebearecbgm beradhegodomg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 15,41,18,6,19,18,24,93,13,17,15,67,22,55,12,11,25,26,39,18,30,62,20,68,21,29,51,43,51,14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
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- Amount of stanzas: 30
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1365
- Average number of words per stanza: 247
- Amount of lines: 943
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, your, this, to, thy, her, of, yet, she, where, or, what, our, me, with, his, in, my are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words when, these, the, no, all, or, shall, not, and, a, of, she are repeated.
The author used the same word but at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The words/phrases here, new, there connect the lines.
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