This is an analysis of Bki:Xv Nereus’ Prophecy Of Troy by Horace.
While Paris, the traitorous shepherd, her guest,
bore Helen over the waves, in a ship from Troy,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abcX ddXe cdef dgXe XXXa hXXg cXcX febhXbdhc
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Metre: 11001001001 110100100101 100111011 01010101 111110010110 111011101101 101001010110 101000111 111011111110 111010111010 101000100101 11100110 100010110010 111111101101 1010111111000 11001011 001010010010 110100101110 111010111111 101001001 111001001011 11100101010 100010101100 10010011 1000100100010 1111001100 111111100010 10110011 101101110010 101010010111 10111101111 11110110 010001010101 010010111010 1101101001001 01010010
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 9
- Lines: 36
Repeated words/phrases
for, you, of, s, as
Anaphora
have, the
