This is an analysis of Bki:Xxxiii Tibullus, Don’t Grieve by Horace.

Tibullus, don’t grieve too much, when you remember
your cruel Glycera, and don’t keep on singing…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aXbb aaXc aXcc XXcX
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,
  • Metre: 100111111010 110100111110 110100111110 10110101 10100010110110 011101010110 10110011110 0101001 11001011110 110101010010 101001001011 10010101 111101010111 1100101010 1111101101 1101001
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 4
  • Lines: 16

Anaphora

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