This is an analysis of the poem Ave Caesar! Morituri Te Salutant that begins with:
The coup d'etat is blotted out
With fresher blood, with blacker crime,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd eded afaf XgXg dada hdhd ijij kjkj abab lglgXjeje
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 01110101 01010101 11110101 01010111 10011101 11010101 01110101 10010001 11110101 010111001 10011111 010100101 11000101 11100101 11010101 110111001 01010101 11000101 10010101 010110001 100100111 100101011 110011101 11110101 101101001 010101001 10111101 010101001 11011101 10111101 10110101 11010111 01010101 11000101 01010101 110001001 01010111 01010101 10110111 11111001 110101001 01010111 10011101 01001101 10011101 11011111 01011101 10110011
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 142
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; they, from are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words they, the are repeated.
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