This is an analysis of the poem Thebais - Book One - Part Iv that begins with:
For by the black infernal Styx I swear,
(That dreadful oath which binds the thunderer) ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXXaabbccaaccddeeffXcbbggbbeeffXfeebbddbbddXeccceeccccddffffffeehhbbaabbeeffccbbfffXccccddffbbddccbbaaddccffddgXffeebbeefffbbffffddddeeaaeebXddcceeXXffeeffffffcXccffffddeeddbbbeeccbbiiXfccffg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 192,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1101010111 1101110100 111101000101 1111110101 1110010101 1101100101 1111110101 111100101 1111011001 0101001101 10110010111 1101000101 1001110101 0101010101 0101011001 01010011001 0001011101 010101110001 0101100101 1101110101 0101010110 1101010001 1101110101 10110101001 1101011001 1101010101 1101010101 1101010101 1101110101 10101111101001 1101010111 11010010101 11010100010 01010111101 1101010101 0101010111 1001010101 0111010101 0011010101 1111010101 11110100101 1111010101 1101011001 1101010101 0101010101 1101010101 0101010101 1101010101 11100101001 1101010101 1101010001 1111111101 01001010111 1011010101 1101010101 1110010101 1101010001 1001010101 1101010101 0101010101 1101000101 1001110101 1101010101 110111101 11010010101 1101010111 01010010101 1111111101 01010011101 1101010101 0110000101 1111010101 1001010101 1101000101 1011010101 00110100101 1001010101 1101010101 10111011101 0101110101 1111010001 1001011101 0111110101 01110100101 1011100101 0101010101 1101010101 1101010101 1101110101 111001011101 101010101 0101010101 1101010101 1111110101 1101110101 1101010101 1101110111 010110101 1101010101 110101010101 1101010101 1101000101 0101010101 1111110101 1111110001 1011000111 1101110101 0101000101 010101110101 1101010101 110110101 1101010101 110010010101 1101111111 1101110111 11011100101 1101000101 0011011101 1101110101 1110101001 0101010101 1001010101 1011010101 1110011101 1101110101 1001010101 1011010111 1111010101 1001010101 1011000101 1101000101 111110101 10111010001 11110100111 0101010001 1111000101 1101111101 0101010101 0101000101 1101011101 011001101 1101111000 0101110101 1100010101 1101011101 1101010101 1101000101 1011011101 1101000101 110100110101 1111010111 1011010101 1101010101 11001111001 01010101001 1111110001 0101010101 1001110101 1101100101 1101010101 0111010001 101010100 0101010101 0101110001 1001110101 011101010001 0110010111 0101110101 1101010011 1011011101 0111010101 1101010101 1001011101 1101100101 1101011101 1101011101001 1011000101 11110101101 11110000101 0011110011 0111110111 10111100101 1111010101 0101110101 1111000101 11010111100 010110101 1101010111 1001010101 1111010101 1111011101 0100010101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 9049
- Average number of words per stanza: 1524
- Amount of lines: 192
- 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; his, and, of, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, now, and, when, thus, on, you are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines n is repeated).
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