This is an analysis of the poem The Battle Of The Lake Regillus that begins with:
A Lay Sung at the Feast of Castor and Pollux on the Ides of Quintilis in the year of the City CCCCLI.
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- Rhyme scheme: X abacadefEecXcgeXeXada XHbhbXhfhddXdXBXb XghbhdiXiejdjkXccXdddcBXbXfdf XXclclbcbhabX ahhchXiXiXbXbXcic aefjfhmjX XXbnbkbibeaXX XXbkbedddeagakifIgoiX XgIpigaXaXfhfXbaBkcdc imbXbejddkfdfdeXeididXhghXamadhXhefif apbXbXFbfgcgcddbd XXbqBififdadakcbcXjdjaaba
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,21,17,29,13,17,9,13,21,21,37,17,25,25,21,29,33,53,17,17,9,13,9,17,13,9,9,9,17,29,33,9,13,9,13,17,61,33,13,21,45,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
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- Amount of stanzas: 41
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 583
- Average number of words per stanza: 105
- Amount of lines: 838
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (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; of, o'er, and, from, she, his, on, he, ', i, see, there, rushed, us, slay, to, with are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words ho, while, o'er, and, the, from, there, his, he, i, with, charge, hail are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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