This is an analysis of the poem Niobe In Distress For Her Children Slain By Apollo, From Ovid's Metamorphoses, Book Vi. And From A View Of The Painting Of Mr. Richard Wilson that begins with:
Apollo's wrath to man the dreadful spring
Of ills innum'rous, tuneful goddess, sing!...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeeddddXbffggffddccggffhhXcggiijjddgghXggffkklleeffddffkkhhhhffjjhhXXddhhddgglXhhmmllbXffXfnXffhXccffggffhhnnddhhkkffffhhhhhhhhhheellhhhhccgghhccffXXcciXjjffhhbXcckkddeehheeflbbeedXhhddkkggffeeffnnddccXXggcckk h hfXeeddfX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 216,1,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 01010101001 0110010101 1111101101 1101000101 0101010001 1101011101 1111111101 1111000101 1111010101 01001110001 111010101 11110101 1001010101 0101010001 1101011001 00101000101 0101010101 101001010101 0101010111 1011010101 0110101101 0101010101 10101010101 10101010101 11010101001 11010110101 0111010101 1110010101 01011111 1101011101 11110100101 00111101010 1011011001 1111011101 11101010001 1101110101 1101010101 01001010001 11011100101 0110011001 0101010101 111010001 1101100001 1101010101 1101010001 1001011100 1101010101 1101000101 0101010101 11010101010 0101010101 1101010101 11010101 011000101001 01001000101 1001100001 0101010011 1101010111 1101010001 1101010101 1011010101 11100010100 1101010101 1110100101 1101110001 1101010101 111111001 1011001101 11110101010 11011101010 1101010101 11001010111 10011111111 1111000101 110100010 1101010110 1111110111 11001010100 1110110001 1101011101 1001010111 1110010001 1111011101 1101000101 100100101 1101010011 11010101 1101110101 0101011101 1101010101 1001110001 1011010101 1001011101 1111000101 11010001 11010001010 11000100101 1101000110 1011101001 1001000101 0101110101 01110110101 1101100101 1101110101 0101111101 11011010101 011000100101 0101010001 1101010101 11011010101 10110101001 1111010101 1001010111 1101000101 1111010101 1001110101 1101010101 0101011101 101101101 1101110001 1111000101 0101010001 11101010101 1101000101 1011110101 11010101001 1101010101 10111111101 11010011001 1011111101 0111000101 1001110101 0101110101 0101010101 01011100101 1101010001 10011100101 1011110101 1101000101 0101010001 1001000101 0101110101 1101010101 010010100101 1111010001 0101010101 1101110100 1011010101 0111010101 01111010101 11110001101 0101010101 1101010101 0101110111 1100010101 11111101010 0101110101 1111111101 1111001101 0101110010 1011010101 0101010101 11100101 1101010101 1011000001 1101010101 1111000101 11010001010 111010101 1101010001 11110101 0101010111 1111010001 1101001001 1101110001 1111100101 1111010101 1101011101 1101110101 1101010011 1101011101 1101010001 1101011101 1011110001 10010101001 1101011101 1101011101 1101001110 11011100101 11010110101 0101110101 10010101001 1011011101 010100110001 1111010101 1111010101 0101010101 1101000101 11010100101 1101010101 1001010101 1001110011 0101010101 01010010101 1011110101 1001110001 1101011101 0111010001 11011111011 11110010110 0111010101 0001110101 1101010001 1011011101 1101010101 1101010101 0100100100101 1101010101 1000111011 1 1101011001 1101110101 1101111111 1101010001 1101110101 1001010101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 3292
- Average number of words per stanza: 561
- Amount of lines: 226
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; on, to, with, her, first, together, his, 'why, in, she are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words seven, together, 'why, and, in, 'her are repeated.
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