This is an analysis of the poem Elegy For Tibullus that begins with:
If Memnon's mother mourned, Achilles's mother mourned,
and our sad fates can touch great goddesses, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abacXdeXaaXddfgXbdhfbdXiXbjXbajjfabbgjbbaXebdbajhbXXjejXdXacaaafiXeb X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 68,1,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 010101100101 1111111100 111111011101 1001111111 1111111111100 11010100101 110110010111 01010101010 1111010011101 110010101001 011001110101 1101110101 11111110011 11101010100 111101101001 1101110101 1111110100001 11011101001 1111100100101 01001010111 110011010110101 11011100101 11111101101101 1001100101 110101101101 11110001010 1111110100101 01010101010 010101110100 10101011101 110011011101 0101010101 11111111001010 110110101101 111101000111 11110011111 1100101010111 0110110011 110011111001 1111010111 00101010111101 1100010111 11111010011 010100011 1101011111101 1111110101 11010110101 1111110101 111111101110 1110110110 11101110001 11010111000 101101001111 111011110010 110111110111 11111111110 1110001111111 1011100101 010101011111 1001001001 110111100101 1111010111 110001110111 101001111 1100111010111 11101100100 1111010111001 11111101110 010001011100
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1775
- Average number of words per stanza: 308
- Amount of lines: 69
- Average number of symbols per line: 51 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; his, that, what, use, your, and, you are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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- summary of Elegy For Tibullus;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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