This is an analysis of the poem Ode Parnasiana that begins with:

De cípreo mosto cheia
A taça ergui. Cogitabunda Musa,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXaXXX baXXXXX aXXXXaX XXXXXaX cXXaXXX XXXXXXX aXXXXXc XXXXXaX XXXXbXX XdXXXXX XXXXXcX aXXXdXX XXXXXXX XXaXXXX XXXXXXX cXXaXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,6,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 01101 01101000010 111001 1010010101011000 100111011010100 110100100 110001 10011010 1101001111100 1111000100 100101011100 10110110100100 11010110100 1001101 111010 111010011110 10011000 101011110100 100101010100 101110011010 1101100 1010010 11000101010 0100100011000 11010110010 010100011101110 101010010 1001110 010100110 1111000010 1011000 1010110110 11100101110 10001001000 0100010 101001 0101101110110 110101100100 1011100100 100110110100 010100101010 10010100 101010 010011110100 111010 100011101100 1100010100 110101101010 11011010 1101000 01001101101 1110101000 100011101110 0101001110 10101101010 01001110 11100100 1101111000 1001110 11001010110100 10100101011 1111010110100 11101000 1001010 1010011011 100100011100 11000110100 10011100100 1011101100 110001 110111000 111011010010 10101000 0100100100110 11101011100 11110010 1101100 10110110 1101100101 10100100100 11001100100 010010111011 0111100110 1011001 1001100 10010111010 10011000 1110101000100 111101010101 1011101000 1010110 11111110 111010101100 111100101010 110101010 11010000100 11011011100 011011 0111100 1001100100 101110100 101110110010 101011110 11100110010 11001000 10100110 101101011100 10110111100 10111110110 110010011110 111100
  • Amount of stanzas: 16
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 221
  • Average number of words per stanza: 43
  • Amount of lines: 126
  • Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • 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; de, e, na, o are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words e, a, da are repeated.

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  • summary of Ode Parnasiana;
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