This is an analysis of the poem Thebais - Book One - Part I that begins with:
Fraternal rage, the guilty Thebes’ alarms,
Th’ alternate reign destroyed by impious arms, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaaaabbccddeeffggddhhddeecciXjjgghhbbggbbggaajjaaaakkhheellmmeeeeeemmbbggccaaXnggeeXkjjbbeeggeeeemmkXaaggeeXicckkkkkbXaajjnneekkmmffaammkkmmnneeffbbbjoo
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 153,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 0101010101 1110010110101 01110101010 11001110101 1101110111 00101000101 1001100101 1101010101 1001011101 1111010001 1101010101 100101101 1111010111 110111010111 01001010101 10110100101 1101010101 1001110001 1110010101 11110100011 110000101 0101000101 1101011101 1101100101 1111110101 1101010101 1101010101 11010000101 1101010101 01011010101 1111011101 0101000101 1111010101 11010011001 1101111101 1111010111 1101010011 01001101101 111010101 10110101001 1101111010 01011101001 111111001 1011110101 01010100001 1101010100 0101101001 111101011 1101111001 01011100111 01001010111 0101010101 1101110101 0101000111 0110010101 0110000101 1101010101 1101100101 0110010101 0101010001 110111101 0101010101 1101011101 1000010011 1101010101 0101001101 1011001101 1101000101 110100101 1011010101 1111110101 1101010101 0101011001 0101110101 0101010101 1101010101 011100111001 1101011101 1111010111 1001110101 1111010101 1101010101 1101110111 1101111101 100111111 010100111 0101101001 1101010101 0101001111 0101011101 11010100101 1011010101 010110101 1110010101 0101110101 0101011101 11110110101 1011110101 1101010101 1011010101 0101111101 11110101010 11110101001 1001010101 10011010001 1101110111 1111101001 0111011101 1101010001 1111000101 1101110101 1111010101 11111110001 11101011101 1101010101 1101010101 11010100111 1001111101 11111100100 1111011111 1101010101 1111010101 1101001111 0101111001 0101100101 1101010101 1101010001 1111010101 0101010101 1101011101 1110000101 1111010101 1011010101 01110101011 1101010001 0110110101 1011000101 1001010101 1011011111 100110101 0111110101 0101011101 1101011101 0101010101 0101010101 00111101001 110110101 1100111101 01001110101 11011001111 1101010101 0101000101 1011011111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 7207
- Average number of words per stanza: 1217
- Amount of lines: 153
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; and, of, my, to, her are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words of, a are repeated.
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- summary of Thebais - Book One - Part I;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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