This is an analysis of the poem Metamorphoses: Book The Fourteenth that begins with:
NOW Glaucus, with a lover's haste, bounds o'er
The swelling waves, and seeks the Latian shore....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XabbccdXeeffbbaXXaggccffgghhaaiiddcccdccccbbddddccgg X Xhgc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 52,1,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 11000101110 0101110101 1001010101 0101000111 1111010111 0111001011 10010010101 1101010100 0110010011 10101101110001 0101101010111 0111011111 01100111001 11011011011 0101111101 1101110001 0101010111 1100010111 1111110101 0101110011 110110101 1001010101 1111110101 1111111101 0110110101 1111010001 1011010101 0101010101 1101100101 10111011101 111000101 1101100101 1101011101 1101010101 0101010101 1101010101 1101010111 01010111001 1101010101 1101010101 0101010111 1001110001 0101010101 0101110101 0101010001 0101010101 1101100101 1001110111 0101000101 1111110011 0111000101 1101011101 0100111 010001011000100 110111101010110100 10101101001
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 3539
- Average number of words per stanza: 435
- Amount of lines: 59
- Average number of symbols per line: 59 (very long 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; from, her, she are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines is repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase connects the lines.
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- summary of Metamorphoses: Book The Fourteenth;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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