This is an analysis of Bki:Xxvii Entanglement by Horace.

To fight with wine-cups intended for pleasure
only suits Thracians: forget those barbarous…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aXXb Xcdb eXeb afbd fXcX bfXf
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Metre: 01011010110 10110011100 111101001 0111101001 01010011010 00110101101 110101011 1010111111 11110111111 0010100111 100100101 1111110111 11010111110 11100101101 0100101001 111110010 01001000111 10011101111 101001100 1110101101 1010010010 11001111011 110101100 1010011011
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 6
  • Lines: 24

Repeated words/phrases

you, what

Anaphora

what