This is an analysis of the poem To His Serving Boy that begins with:
Persicos odi
Puer, apparatus;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXXXX XXXXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic trimeter or irregular meter
- Metre: 10010 11010 1001 10010 1100 101100 10100 10010 101000 10010 11100 10010 11110 1100
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 112
- Average number of words per stanza: 16
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 15 (very short strings)
- Average number of words per line: 2
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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