This is an analysis of the poem Ad Piscatorem that begins with:
FOR these are sacred fishes all
Who know that lord that is the lord of all;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddcXXXeeff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 11110101 1111100101 1001110101 1111100101 1101111111 1111010101 11011010101 11010010111 10111 11110111110 1101000101 0101110100 1111110001 1101010111 0111011111 1001010111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 674
- Average number of words per stanza: 130
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- 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; that, all, he are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines all is repeated).
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