This is an analysis of the poem Horatius that begins with:

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  • Rhyme scheme: X a XbXbcadDa X DcecfgXg X XXhfcfcf X XihiXXha a Xjjjjjfj a jkjkXbjb X fkdkXblb X XlXlmgjg X hiXinXcb h nfXfngjX a nfifXaXa X jafnogXG X pXfcnjaj X jijijjXj X jflXjcjc X Xajanaga X ijXjmfXf X qicikkjk X ochcnfcX X obkXiaca X pgiiigNjcccj X NfjfXkXk X NqcX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,1,9,1,8,1,8,1,8,1,8,1,8,1,8,1,8,1,8,1,8,1,8,1,8,1,8,1,8,1,8,1,8,1,8,1,8,1,8,1,8,1,12,1,8,1,11,1,8,1,8,1,8,1,8,1,8,1,8,1,8,1,8,1,8,1,8,1,8,1,11,1,9,1,10,1,8,1,10,1,11,1,8,1,8,1,8,1,10,1,8,1,8,1,8,1,8,1,11,1,10,1,8,1,8,1,8,1,8,1,8,1,9,1,8,1,8,1,8,1,10,1,8
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 011010100101 1 1100010 101111 1011010 110111 1011110 110101 11010011 1111111 010001 1 1111111 010011 11011110 110101 1101010 110001 1100010 010111 1 0101010 110010 010010101 0100101 01001010 111111 111011101 010101 1 010100 110111 1101010 110101 0101000 110010 10010101 100101 1 001101 100101 1110011 100111 0111010 1111110 011001010 0101010 1 1101110 101101 11011101 001001 0111100 000101 10110101 011001 1 1111010 011101 11010111 101001 10001100 100111 01010111 001001 1 0100100 011111 0111010 1101001 1001010 010111 10110101 111101 1 10101010 010001 11011100 111101 1011010 1101010 10011101 110101 1 1011010 1111010 11111100 11010010 1101010 010101 1111010 0101010 1 11110010 110101 0111010 011101 0101010 010101 01111100 010101 1 11001010 010101 11001010 1100110 10010100 010101 0100100 100101 1 1101010 110110 0101001 011111 0101010 011101 01010101 111111 1 111110 110101 11010101 110011 1111010 110101 11011100 010111 1 1101110 100101 11010111 110101 1101010 110101 01110111 1100101 1 100110 101101 01010100 100111 0100010 111111 1100101101 010001 1 0101010 110101 11111100 010001 10010100 110101 10111000 101111 1 110101011 111111 11011101 111111 1111010 110101 01110111 110001 1 1101010 010101 11111111 110101 1101010 111111 11100001 111101 1 1101110 110111 1101110 1100010 1011010 010101 11010101 110101 1 1101110 101111 11011111 01011101 01010111 010101 1101110 110101 1011101 01010111 01010101 010101 1 1101110 0111001 1111010 011101 10100110 110001 0100010 010001 1 1101110 110101 11111111 111100 1100100 101111 11000111 10011111 10000101 11100001 110100 1 1101010 1000101 1100010 1001001 10111100 100101 1101110 110101 1 1101010 110101 01110100 010101 10111110 1101111 1111110 110101 1 1010111 1010111 11011101 110101 1100011 010111 10111101 110101 1 1111010 010001 110010101 110111 1111110 110101 10100010 1010001 1 1101010 110101 1101110 010101 1101010 1100101 0100110 110101 1 1101110 010111 1011011 010101 0111010 110111 11011101 110101 1 1111010 010111 11011111 110101 1111100 010111 10011111 110101 1 1001010 11101101 11011101 110101 1100110 110111 11111111 001101 1 1111010 110101 1011101 1011101 11010100 110101 0100110 001101 1 1100010 110101 10100101 1010101 1111010 010111 100111111 001101 1 11010100 110111 01010111 010111 1101010 110111 11010101 110101 1 1101010 1100001 11010101 10111101 001101 1101010 010111 11110101 11011101 110010101 110101 1 0111110 110101 1011010 010111 1111110 011101 01111111 11011111 010101 1 1001100 100101 1111101 100101 1101010 100111 110101010 011111010 010010010 1001101 1 1101110 000101 100111 111001 1101010 1011001 10110101 100101 1 1100100 110101 1100010 010001 1100100 110111 01111101 01010101 11011101 011001 1 1001110 101101 10010100 010101 11011110 110111 01010111 01010101 11100111 01110111 111001 1 1111010 110101 0111010 010111 1110010 101101 11011111 010101 1 1101010 110101 1011010 100101 0101010 110111 10011101 111111 1 1111110 010111 1101010 111001 1111110 110011 1011010 010101 1 1101011 011001 1101010 110101 0111010 110101 01111111 01011101 01010101 010111 1 1111100 111101 11011101 111101 1111110 110111 00110111 010101 1 1011010 111101 1111100 010101 11001010 010111 101101001 110101 1 1101010 110101 11111110 111101 1111110 111111 11010011 011101 1 1101010 010101 10011111 0111001 1111010 110101 1110010 010101 1 1110010 111101 10101010 0010101 1001010 111101 11111101 10010101 10010011 11010111 101111 1 1111011 0111001 1101110 110111 1101110 100101 11010101 0110101 100100101 110001 1 1111110 110101 11110101 1111101 1101010 110011 11111101 1101010 1 1111010 111101 1111010 111101 1101110 110101 110000101 010101 1 1111110 110001 11011100 010101 1111100 110101 1101100 110101 1 1101010 100101 11110111 110101 1111110 110101 11010101 111111 1 1001110 1100101 11010101 110101 1011010 100101 10010101 110101 1 1101010 111101 010010101 110101 1101110 010001 11010101 1001111 111001 1 0111010 110101 11010101 101101 1011110 0011011 11111100 1110110 1 1111110 110101 11101100 010111 11111000 011001 111001010 11101001 1 1101010 010101 01010101 110101 1111101 001101 10010101 111001 1 1101110 110101 11110101 01011101 110111 1101010 110101 111101001 110010100 111001 111 1101010 1011101 1101110 111101 1100010 110101 1111110 110111 1 1011010 011101 10110101 100101 10101110 101101 1101010 110101 1 1111110 110101 11011101 111101 101111100 111101 11010101 1101100 1 1111010 111111 1111010 010101 1101110 110101 11010101 110101 1 1110011 110101 1111110 110111 11101010 110111 11011001 010011 1 0100100 111101 0100010 100111 1101010 010101 11001101 001101 1 1101110 100101 101011100 010101 1111010 110111 10110111 001101 1 1001010 101111 10110001 010101 1101010 110101 10010100 110101 1 10101010 1010101 101010010 1011101 1111010 0101011 10111010 1011101 1 10101010 110101 1010010100 110101 0101010 100101 11010101 001101
  • Amount of stanzas: 141
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 126
  • Average number of words per stanza: 24
  • Amount of lines: 660
  • Average number of symbols per line: 26 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, forth, of, nor, up, then, he, welcome, thrice, back, his are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, from, this, go, the, then, he, thrice, 'now, now are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ' is repeated).

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