This is an analysis of the poem De Rerum Virtute that begins with:
I.
Here is the skull of a man: a man’s thoughts and emotions ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a bbcdXbbXe X fgbhcihiiicehhjXXiff X cgXcbfX X jfhfkXfbhibebdi a cfkeidbflchejlkXfh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,9,1,20,1,7,1,15,1,18,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1 10010010111010 1110011111 100111101011 1000111101 110111010100010010 10110101001 110101001011100100 11010100101 11110011001111 1 11011011101 101110100101 1001000101001011 11011101101 101111010111 101100100110100100 0100010101001 01101011010 01010110010100 0011011000101 1011110001001 010110101101 11000100011 01010110001110 11111010101 11111101101 11110101000100 11111011010111011110100101000101 011111001101010111101 1011011111111 1 101101010111 111111011111 1101110011010 1110111011 01001111100101111 10111110010 010110101001000 1 11101110011 10010101010110001 01010100100111100 100001101 110001101011000010010110 010001011110100111 10101001110011 00101 1001110101001 11111111010 111110100111111 10011011110100 1001011110111010110110 11100110111 111001 1 110110100111 0011000110101 11010101001011010 101011111100 11010001111 10010101001110110101101 0110111101110 101011011011 1010110011 100111011110 100110010100110 100010011110010011100 10111001 0100111011000 00001001101100 00010101000100 010100110101 110011111110100
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 395
- Average number of words per stanza: 73
- Amount of lines: 78
- Average number of symbols per line: 50 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, of, for, it, in, not, at are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words how, it are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines god is repeated).
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