This is an analysis of the poem Ambition And Content: A Fable that begins with:
“
Optat quietem.” —Hor... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X aabbccddee ffggffffee hhccaaeehhhh bbbbbbiiggbbbeedddiibbaaeehhXbcciibbff ffhhXe bbXijjbb iibbcchhee cchhcciiffiibbggkkbbiiffbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 0,1,10,10,12,38,6,8,10,26,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 10101 1101111101 1101110101 0101010111 11010100101 11001010101 11010100101 0101111001 1101010101 11011100101 0101111101 1010010101 110101010001 1001100101 1101010101 01001111101 11010101001 10110101001 1111011111 0100010101 010101110101 1001010101 1111010101 11001010101 0101110101 0101010101 1101010101 0101010101 1101110101 1001001101 0100010101 10111000101 00101110101 010110010111 0101110101 01010101001 0101010111 1101010001 0101110101 01010010101 1101010101 1011010101 0101010101 1101010101 11110100101 1100101010101 0011110101 11010101001 1101010111 0001011111 01010011010001 01001010001 11111100111 01001111101 1101010111 0101010101 0101010101 1101010101 0101101101 1001010101 11010111001 1110010110 1001010101 0101110111 0111011101 1001001111 0101100101 1101110101 1100010011 1101110110 0101000111 1101111101 0011010101 0111010101 1101010001 11010111010 1100010101 010111101 0111110111 1111011110 1101011101 1011110101 1011011101 100011100101 1101111101 1101010101 110101011 0101010011 1101011010011 111110111001 1101010101 11010101001 010100001001 01010010101 1101110101 1110000010010 110101010010 10011101001 1010010010 1101011001 10110101001 0101011111 0100110001 11001011101 1001010101 1111010101 1001010101 1111010101 1111111111 1101010111 1101010111 11010000101 1111110101 0100010101 1110011101 01010101001 1101000101 1011000111 1001110101 1111010101 1101010001
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 602
- Average number of words per stanza: 103
- Amount of lines: 123
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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; to, and, their, our, thy are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words , here, the, and are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines is repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase connects the lines.
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