This is an analysis of Bki:Xxviii Three Handfuls Of Earth by Horace.
You, my Archytas, philosopher, and measurer of land,
of the sea, of wide sands, are entombed…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabc dedd XXdf Xggf dhXX hdig hdiX jkicXbkej
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Metre: 111000100110001 001011101 0011011101001 1001101001 11101101001010 101001001 10010101101001 1100110010 101100110010100 110011010 111101000110101 1110101111 1011011110011100 0111100010 0101111011110111 1101101001 0100101101001101 010101010 010000110111010 1111110100 110111011010010 110010010 11011010101010100 101100111 111100111100010 11001001 10110110101001 0101010010 1010001001010011 0100001001 10111001001001 011101100 01011111100101 111101100 001111100100101 1101101011
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 9
- Lines: 36
Repeated words/phrases
of, to, and, s, from, you
Anaphora
the
