This is an analysis of Ninth Ode Of The Third Book Of Horace by James Clerk Maxwell.

Horace.
While I was your beloved one,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: a bcde f bfef a gXec f bXdX a bXgf f XXg
  • Stanza lengths: 1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,3,
  • Metre: 10 11110101 111101101101 1111100 101001111100 100 11110101 11010110100 11111100 101001110100 10 1011101 111001100100 11100110 000100110101 100 11111101 11101001100 11111100 00100111110 10 10110101 11111111000 1010101 10111100100 100 11101101 1110111101001001100 111101111101
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 12
  • Lines: 34

Anaphora

while