This is an analysis of the poem The First Hymn Of Callimachus. To Jupiter that begins with:

While we to Jove select the holy victim
Whom apter shall we sing than Jove himself,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcdeddfdgXhijfhgkdjcilXdhjeXXXmlXdnhaolgXidpfaXdqgokfXlgagfknXddhmjdrpknnkmflhfdjXpmhhbkdckjrkpghXdfqnakjkhncpmdhgd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 116,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 11010101010 1101111101 0111011101 1101011101 01011001011 110110101 11001111101 1110000101 0101101111 111001110100 1101111101 01110101110 110011011110 1001100101 111010101 10011011110 1001011101 110100010010 01010110110 1001010101 0100111010001 010101010100 1101011011 01010101110 11010101001 010101010100 010100101010 00010010101 010101011000 010101111 1100011101 1111110111 1110111111 1101100101 0101001001 1001010101 110101010010 11011101110 0101110101 01010100011 1011010001 110011110 11010101010 1100010101 1100010101 01001011101 11001010101 110100101010 1000010010101 1101110101 1101010101 1100011101 0110111010 0111010101 110010110 01110101001 0101011101 01011001010 0110001011100 11011101101 01000011101 11011101010 11110111001 1011000101 1011011101 110101011100 01001011101 10111101010 11010101010 110100110010 11110111011 0101011111 11001111010 1001111001110 0101111110 01110010101 11001010101 01010101011 11111101110 10110111001 0101010001 1001011101 11010101111 10110101111 0101110101 11011101010 01010101010 1001011111 101011101010 1101010101 01000101010 01010110011 1001010101 10010101010 01010101010 11011111001 1101010101 111111110100 11010011101 1111010100 0110011101 0100011101 01100101110 0111010001 1011010101 110011111010 01011100010 11010101010 01000111111 1111110111 0111010111 1101110111 10110101101 11001101110 11010011110 1011111011
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 5252
  • Average number of words per stanza: 868
  • Amount of lines: 116
  • Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • 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; and, of, thy, or, to, virtue, wealth are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words in, and, to are repeated.

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