This is an analysis of the poem To Maecenas that begins with:
MAECENAS, you, beneath the myrtle shade,
Read o'er what poets sung, and shepherds play'd....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddaacccceeaaffccgghhccaabbdXeeaaiibbeeaaa XXcchheecc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 47,10,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1001010101 11011011101 1111011101 1111010101 1101110101 0101011001 11011100001 0101010101 1111110101 1111010111 11001011101 0101010101 1101010101 0111011111 1101011101 0101110001 1110010101 0101001101 1101110101 1110010101 1101010101 0101110101 1111011101 1101000101 1011011101 1011001111 1111010101 1111010001 1111110101 1111110101 1111110101 1111000101 1101010101 11010101010 1111010101 0101010111 0100101010010 01010101010 1111010101 0101010101 0101010101 00101000101 1101100101 0101011101 1101011101 11010011001 1101010101 11110011 1111010101 110110101 1101010101 11010101001 1111011111 1111111101 1110010101 1101010111
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 821
- Average number of words per stanza: 141
- Amount of lines: 56
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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; in, my, should, thy are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words not, the, while, so are repeated.
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