Analysis of In Virgilium. Pentadii.

Richard Lovelace 1618 – 1657



IN VIRGILIUM.  PENTADII.

Pastor, arator, eques; pavi, colui, superavi;
Capras, rus, hostes; fronde, ligone, manu.

A swain, hind, knight: I fed, till'd, did command:
Goats, fields, my foes: with leaves, a spade, my hand.


Scheme A XX AA
Poetic Form Tetractys  (20%)
Metre 011 1011111 111111 0111111101 1111110111
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 252
Words 38
Sentences 6
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 1, 2, 2
Lines Amount 5
Letters per line (avg) 32
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 53
Words per stanza (avg) 12
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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