This is an analysis of the poem To Catullus that begins with:
Would that you were alive today, Catullus!
Truth ’tis, there is a filthy skunk amongst us, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXaXa bbcbd XXddcb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,5,6,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11100101100 11100101011 0111000101 01110111110 10100101011 01110001010 11110011010 11110101010 10110101010 11110111010 11010101011 10110101100 11110101011 01101011011 11110100010 11010011010
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 169
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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; not is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word not is repeated.
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