Analysis of Ausonius Epig
Richard Lovelace 1618 – 1657
Emptis quod libris tibi bibliotheca referta est,
Doctum et grammaticum te, philomuse, putas.
Quinetiam cytharas, chordas et barbita conde:
Mercator hodie, cras citharoedus, eris.
Because with bought books, sir, your study's fraught,
A learned grammarian you would fain be thought;
Nay then, buy lutes and strings; so you may play
The merchant now, the fidler, the next day.
| Scheme | XAXA BBCC |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain |
| Metre | 11111101 111111 111111 0101111 0111111101 01111111 1111011111 01010100011 |
| Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
| Characters | 421 |
| Words | 64 |
| Sentences | 6 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 37 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 149 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 29 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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