This is an analysis of the poem From Lucretius that begins with:
Tis sweet to stand on the firm shore and see
A swimmer striving with the billows' breath;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcdcecedd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: Shakespearean sonnet
- Metre: 1101101111 0101000101 1101011100 1111001101 1101110111 1101110001 1101000111 1111010101 1001110101 1101110101 0101010111 11010100111 1100110001 1101010001
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 611
- Average number of words per stanza: 116
- Amount of lines: 14
- 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; to is repeated.
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