This is an analysis of the poem Love And Honor that begins with:

Sed neque Medorum silvae, ditissima terra
Nec pulcher Ganges, atque auro turbidus Haemus,... full text

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  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,1,6,325,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 111001100010 1101011010010 100100010110110 1010001010100 1010 11110010101 1101110101 1001010101 01011111010 1100111101 11010011010 1011011001 0101010101 11010011001 0101011001 0101011101 1101010101 11010101001 01010111010 1001010101 1101011101 0101110001 1111000101 0100110101 10110010101 0101001001001 1111011101 1111011111 1101010101 01010010101 01010100101 1101010101 0101010101 1001010101 110010111001 01001011001 11010100111 10001010001 11010101010 0111110101 1001011101 0101010001 01010101001 0111010101 1011110111 1111010111 0101010101 1001010101 0101111101 1101010101 1111010101 0101111101 1101010101 1001010101 01010100101 0101011101 11001110001 1111110001 0111011101 0101011101 01001011111 1101111101 1011010001 0101110101 1001010101 1111110111 1101011101 0101000101 1101010101 0111010101 1101010001 010010011110 1001010111 1111110101 01010111010 1101010110 01010100101 1111110101 01011000101 11010010101 0101101101 1101010101 0101010101 0101100111 10101110001 11001111001 01011100101 1001100101 11010101010 1011110101 11110101110 1111110101 01010101101 01001110101 1101010101 0101010101 1011010101 1110010001 1111000101 010010101001 1101111101 0101111111 1101010101 11010101111 01011101001 1101010101 1101010101 1101010101 1101010111 0101010101 01010100011 1101110101 0101010101 1011010101 11010010101 1101110011 01001010111 0101010101 0101011101 11011011001 010010101001 11010111100 0101010101 0101010101 1001010101 1001010101 1101010101 1101011101 00110011111 0101011101 0101100101 1101010101 11001111101 01000110101 0111101101 11001010001 01110110001 1111010101 1001010101 1111100101 0101011101 0111011101 1111000111 0101011101 0111011111 110101010010 01010100010 1111011011 10111110011 1101010001 01010011001 11111100011 1101011101 1101011101 0101111101 1111010101 0101010101 1101010101 01010110001 0101010101 11001010101 1101110111 1011011101 1101100101 11010011101 110010101010 1101011101 11010010001 0111110111 1101010101 0111011101 1101010101 10111101101 10010101001 1111010101 110111110010 0101010111 1111010101 1111110101 11011011001 0101010101 1101000101 1111010101 0101011101 1101110101 11001010101 11010101100 11010010111 1101010101 0101010001 1111011101 0101001101 1101001001001 0101010111 01001110101 11010111010 1101010101 111011001 11001001111 01010101010 1111010101 11010011001 0101011111 0111011110 1001010111 0101010101 1101010011 11010100111 10101011111 1111110101 0101110101 10011100111 01010011101 0101001101 11111110010 111101001001 1011010111 1101110101 1111010101 0101010011 01100001001 110100101001 0101111101 0101010111 1101101111 1101110101 1001011101 0100010101 1101010101 0111111101 1101010101 1101010111 0101010101 0101111101 1100010101 1100011101 1001010101 1101010111 01111101001 0101110101 11110110101 1101010101 11000010101 0110010101 1101010101 01001010111 11011011101 1011010101 101111101110 1111010101 0101010001 1101100101 11011101010 10110010101 1111011111 0111010101 1101011111 01011100101 1101011101 0111110111 0101110111 0111110111 1101010111 1101010101 01001010101 0101011111 0101011101 0101001101 0111010101 0101110011 11010111010 0101010101 0111010101 11110010001 0111110101 1011111101 1111010101 1101010001 1001110001 11011101010 01010100101 01010100101 0101010101 11011111001 0111011110 1101010101 1111110111 1011010101 0101110101 11110111001 01001110111 11100111101 1111110101 010101001001 11010101001 1111010101 0100111001 1101110101 1101010101 1111111101 010010100101 11001110100 110100110001 0101111101 0101110101 01010001101 1101110101 01010100101 1111110101 0101011011 11011101011 0111010101 1001011101 0101010101 11110100101 1101010111 1101000101 0111011111 10010101001 1101000101 1101011010010 1111011101 1101100101 0101110101 0101100110 1101011101 0101010001 1101011111 1101110101 1111010101 10101010101 0101101101 01110101001 0111011101 1110010101 0101010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 2971
  • Average number of words per stanza: 509
  • Amount of lines: 337
  • 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; nor, her, of, or, his, and, to, my, if, all, thy, with, by are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, and, from, to, thy, if, by are repeated.

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