This is an analysis of the poem Thebais - Book One - Part Iii that begins with:
Oh race confed’rate into crimes, that prove
Triumphant o’er th’ eluded rage of Jove! ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbbccddeebbbeeffgghheeiibbbeeddcXggccjjbbeehheeeeiieeeeffcceeaXkkkklllXXeeccmmeeccciieeeeaXjjddcchhddjjjeeXk
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 109,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1110000111 010111010101 0101110101 1100010101 1110001100101 111010100010 101101101 1011000101 1011010101 110010101001 1011000101 011101010001 1101110101 1101110101 0101110101 0101110101 01010010101 0101011111 1011000101 1101000101 0111010101 1101010101001 0101010101 01001011101 11110100101 1101010101 0111000101 11010100101 111101011 0101010101 1100010101 1101011111 1101010111 11010101100 0101110101 0101110101 111101101 111101010001 1001110101 1101000101 1001010111 01001000101 1111110101 0101010011 1011011001 1101010101 1111010101 0101010101 1111100101 1111010101 1111010101 10001010101 1101010101 1101010111 11010101101 1101000101 1111011001 1101010111 111001001001 1101000101 1111010101 1101010101 1101000111 1111010101 1111110101 11010101011 111101101 1100010101 1111010101 01011010011 1101010101 1011011101 1101110110 1011010101 1101010101 1011010101 0101010101 1001010101 0101000111 10110011101 0101001101 010111101 0101110101 01000100101 11110010101 10101011101 11110101001 011010001 1101110101 1101110101 1111011111 01001110101 111100101 1111010001 0111110101 1101010101 10101110101 1111101111 1001110101 0111010001 0101010001 1001010101 1111110111 01011011101 0101010101 111011101 110001010101 1101010110 11110101000
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 5071
- Average number of words per stanza: 853
- Amount of lines: 109
- 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; of, and, in, there, to, his, thy are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words th, the, must are repeated.
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- summary of Thebais - Book One - Part Iii;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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