This is an analysis of the poem Thebais - Book One - Part Ii that begins with:

A robe obscene was o’er her shoulders thrown,
A dress by fates and furies worn alone. us ...

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  • Rhyme scheme: abccddefcccbggggggghhhgggXaaiijjddffddffhhddaacchhhhccaakkaaffbgaaffaahhhhddffhhaadddhhccXXhhaaccaaggeeaaccaaaacceehhgggXggfffaaccccXXeebbgXffjjhhff
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 148,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 0101110101 01111101011 110110101 0101010101 0100011101 0101110101 11010101111 1110010101 01010101011 0101010101 11111010101 101110101 10011000001 0110011101 111010001 11010101001 1101010101 1101010111 0101000101 1001011101 1001010101 1111010111 1101100101 1101010101 1101011101 0101110100 11000100101 1101010001 11010101010 11010101010 1101110101 1101000101 0101010101 111001110101 1101110101 1101000101 1101000101 1101010101 0101010101 0101111001 0101100101 1101100101 1011100101 0101000101 10011010101 1110000101 1111010101 1101010101 11001001101 1101010101 1101010101 0101010101 1101010101 1101010101 1111010101 1101110001 1101010111 10111010101 111110101 1101010101 10110001001 1011010101 1111111101 0111010101 11010101001 010110001 1111011111 1101110101 10010101011 1101011101 1011010001 1101010101 1101110101 1101111101 11110111001 1101110111 1101110101 0101110001 1100011101 010111010101 0111111101 1101001101 1101110101 1101011101 1101111111 1101010101 1101110101 1101111101 1111011101 110011101001 001101010101 1111111101 0011010101 1101010101 1101010101 110010101 01010010101 11111111001 1111001101 1101111000111 1101000101 1101010101 1101010101 10010010101 1101011101 1101110001 1101000101 1001010001 1101111101 1101010101 1011110101 1111010101 0111010111 1101011101 1111110101 1111011101 1101001001 1101110101 1111011001 111101010001 01010001100 1001100001 1101010101 1101011101 0101010101 1110101011111 1001110101 01000101001 0111111101 11010010101 11001010001 0101010001 10110001001 0101111101 1011010101 1111010101 1111111101 110101110101 0101000101 10110001100 11010001001 1011010101 0111010101 0101010111 1101110101 1101000101 1111010101 1101010001
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 6653
  • Average number of words per stanza: 1157
  • Amount of lines: 148
  • Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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; her, their, and, of, no, they, these, his are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words a, and, no, nor, say, these, the are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines rs is repeated).

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