This is an analysis of the poem Gualterus Danistonus, Ad Amicos. - And Imitation that begins with:
Dum studeo fungi fallentis munere vitae,
Adfectoque viam sedibus Elysiis... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX a bbccddeeffggggaabXhhccbbiijjbbccccc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 22,1,35,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 110101001010 1001100100 101001010100 100010011010 1101000100110010 100100101010 1010010110100 1010010011 101000100011010 11110100110 110101011010 101101001010 100110100110100 110010110101 100110011001010 100111010001 110100110100 10010010010 0110010010010 11110110110 10101100111010010 10011011010 1010 10001010001 1101010101 1101010011 11011010101 1101010101 01010111001 0101110111 1101110101 0101001101001 1111011101 1101000101 1101010001 1001011111 1101001101 01001100101 1100110101 1001011101 11011011001 1011010101 1101011101 0101010101 1101010101 1111101101 1111111001 0101111101 11001010101 1001011101 0101011001 0101011101 01010000111 00110001101 1101000101 01011110010 11011111001 0111010111
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 811
- Average number of words per stanza: 137
- Amount of lines: 60
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (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; thou is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, and are repeated.
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