Analysis of Dignissimo Suo Amico Doctori Wittie. De Translatione Vulgi
Nempe sic innumero succrescunt agmine libri,
Saepia vix toto ut jam natet una mari.
Fortius assidui surgunt a vulnere praeli:
Quoque magis pressa est, auctior Hydra redit.
Heu quibus Anticyris, quibus est sanabilis herbis
Improba scribendi pestis, avarus amor!
India sola tenet tanti medicamina morbi,
Dicitur & nostris ingemuisse malis.
Utile Tabacci dedit illa miserta venenum,
Acci veratro quod meliora potest.
Jamque vides olidas libris fumare popinas:
Naribus O doctis quam pretiosus odor!
Hac ego praecipua credo herbam dote placere,
Hinc tuus has nebulas Doctor in astra vehit.
Ah mea quid tandem facies timidissima charta?
Exequias Siticen jam parat usque tuas.
Hunc subeas librum Sansti ceu limen asyli,
Quem neque delebit flamma, nec ira fovis.
| Scheme | AABCDAEDFCDAACCDBD |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 111111 11101111010 111011 111011101 11110111 111110 1001010111 11110 111111 11111 111111 1111110 110110111 1111100101 11110111 111111 1111111 11111101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
| Characters | 745 |
| Words | 117 |
| Sentences | 11 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 18 |
| Lines Amount | 18 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 618 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 115 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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