This is an analysis of the poem Venus' Advice To The Muses that begins with:
Thus to the Muses spoke the Cyprian Dame,
Adorn my altars, and revere my name.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccccddee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 10010101001 0111010111 1111010101 1101111111 0101010101 0101010101 1101111101 0011110101 1111010111 1001011101 11110001001 11111100111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 508
- Average number of words per stanza: 92
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- 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; my is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, on are repeated.
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