This is an analysis of the poem The Aeneid, Book I, [Arms and the man I sing] that begins with:
Arms and the man I sing, who, forced by fate
And haughty Juno's unrelenting hate,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccccddaacceeffgghhbbhhggiiggaaahhhhXhhhaaccddeeccaagXiiccffjjddhhXXgggX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 75,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1101111111 1101010101 0111110101 1101111111 1001010111 0101110101 0101010101 1101010001 0101010101 1011000101 1101010101 1101011101 1101010101 0101111101 0101010101 0101110001 1101110101 1101110101 0101011101 1101110101 0101000101 11011100011 10010101101 1011010101 11010010101 01010100101 1111110101 1101010001 1101110101 0101010101 1101010101 1101010101 1100110101 1101011101 11001010101 0111010001 1101010101 1100010101 0101010101 01011100100 1001010101 1101011101 0101000101 1011000101 1101000101 11101010101 0111110101 11110100101 1101011101 1101010111 11010101001 100010101001 1101010001 11001010001 01010010101 101110111011 101010101000 1101011101 11110011101 11010010001 0101011101 1101010101 0101010101 0100011101 1101010001 11110101001 0111000101 1101100101 0111010111 1111010101 0100010010101 1100110101 0101010101 11010101001 110011101010
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 3293
- Average number of words per stanza: 581
- Amount of lines: 75
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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; and, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word such is repeated.
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- summary of The Aeneid, Book I, [Arms and the man I sing];
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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