This is an analysis of the poem To Mr. Blanchard, The Celebrated Aeronaut In America that begins with:
Nil mortalibus ardui est
Caelum ipsum petimus stultitia ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXb ccdd ddee ffaa ggee ggee ffhh bbeX aaii ffii aacX eeff aaii aaee gggg aajj ddaaXiii
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,8,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110001001 1010100100 10 01010111 11011101 01000111 01010101 11010101 01010111 11111101 11010101 11101101 11011101 110011101 0101101 01111101 10010101 000010101 11010101 11110101 010111001 11010111 01010101 11010101 01010101 11010101 01110101 11010101 10011101 11100101 0101010110 01110101 11011001 11011101 11010101 11011111 11111111 01011111 110010101 01011111 11011101 10010101 11010101 01011101 11010101 11100111 01010101 110011011 11110101 11000101 01010101 01010101 11111111 11011101 11110101 11010101 01011111 01111111 01010101 11010011 11101111 01101111 11111101 11110101 11010101 11111111 11011101 010101001 01010101 11011101
- Amount of stanzas: 18
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 148
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 71
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word to is repeated.
The author used the same word would at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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