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

The king once more the solemn rites requires,
And bids renew the feasts, and wake the fires. ...

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbaaccddeeccffbbggccffXaaacceebbaaaaaccaaaabbhhccaaffbbXaddeeiiffccbbbbbbeebbaaeebbaaajjddggkkggaacchhhhccXbeeaallbbaaaaiieXccaakkbbeeffcckkddhhaaaaeebbfffddaaccggggXaeejXmmggggkkccaaddeeggeeaaaa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 197,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 01110101010 11010111010 0101110101 01011100101 0101010101 0101110101 0101010001 1101010101 1101001111 1101010101 0101011001 1111010101 0101101101 0111010101 1101010101 10010100001 1111010101 1110010101 1101000101 1101010101 1001010001 0101010101 111011001 11110001001 1101010110 1101001101 1101011111 1111010101 1111010101 1111010101 0101011101 01010101001 1101010101 0101110101 10010100101 0101010101 1101110111 10011010101 11010100001 1111001101001 0101010001 1101100101 11010010101 1011100111 1001110101 0101010111 0110010101 1111010111 011100101 0101010101 1011010101 1011010101 0101010101 1101011101 110010111001 0110010101 0101010111 1101111000 0111110101 11011100101 1101000101 1101010101 01100110101 0111100111 1111000101 0101010101 1101100101 0101110101 1101010101 1101110101 11001010101 1011011111 01110011010 111110101 0101010101 1111110101 1101001100111 0101010001 0101000101 0111010101 1101000101 1101010101 1101010101 1101011101 0101010001 1100010101 1011010101 0111010101 11010110001 1101110111 1101010111 1101000101 01001010101 11010011101 110101010101 0101010101 0101110101 1101110101 11010001011 0101010101 1101010111 01010110101 1101010011 0111000101 1111111101 1101110101 0111010111 1101010101 0111010101 1001010101 1111011101 0101010111 1001010101 010101011 1101011101 0101010101 0101100101 10010111010101 1111000101 11010010111 110101011 110101010101 110100110001 11110111101 0101010111 1101110100 0111010101 110100100101 0101110101 0111011101 0111011101 1101110111 1111011111 1011110101 1001000101 1101010111 1101010111 1001111101 0101110101 1001100101 0111100101 0101011111 1101010101 1101110001 1111111101 0101110101 1111010101 0101010101 1101011001 1101001101 110101011 1111011101 0101010101 11010100101 00110111101 01001111001 1010010011 1101010101 1111010101 1101101101 1111011001 110110101 1101011101 1001100101 1101011101 1101110111 0101010101 11110101100 0101011101 1101110111 0101110101 1001010101 1011000101 1101010101 0101010101 110010011101 1101111101 11010011101 10101001101 1101110101 110101001101 1111010111 0101110101 0101110101 0101010101 1101110101 0101110011 0101111101 1111100101 1001010111 11011110001 1110011101 0101010101 1100110101 1101010101 1011010101 11010010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 9268
  • Average number of words per stanza: 1557
  • Amount of lines: 197
  • 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, on, in, their, his, with, to, her, me, my, your, of, thy are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word these is repeated.

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase fame connects the lines.

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