This is an analysis of Bki:Xxxii To The Lyre by Horace.

I’m called on. O Lyre, if I’ve ever played
idle things with you in the shade, that will live,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: XXXa XbXc XXbc XaXX
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,
  • Metre: 1111101101 10101001101 10111111001 10100 1011110010 01100111011 1101101101 101001 11001010110 11001011010 11100100011 11011 11000101010 10101000010 11101101101 01111
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 4
  • Lines: 16

Repeated words/phrases

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Anaphora

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