The	DT	O
author	NN	O
of	IN	O
the	DT	O
«	)	O
Octavia	NN	O
»	(	O
was	VBD	O
steeped	VBN	O
in	IN	O
the	DT	O
study	NN	O
of	IN	O
Senecan	NP	O
,	,	O
and	CC	O
probably	RB	O
Augustan	JJ	O
,	,	O
tragedy	NN	O
.	SENT	O

The	DT	O
versification	NN	O
of	IN	O
iambics	NNS	O
imitates	VBZ	O
Senecan	NP	O
technique	NN	O
.	SENT	O
Most	RBS	O
line-end	JJ	O
parallels	NNS	O
between	IN	O
the	DT	O
Senecan	NP	O
corpus	NN	O
and	CC	O
«	)	O
Octavia	NP	O
»	(	O
are	VBP	O
literary	JJ	O
idioms	NNS	O
rooted	VBN	O
in	IN	O
Augustan	JJ	O
or	CC	O
post-Augustan	NP	O
Latin	NP	O
;	:	O
no	DT	O
instances	NNS	O
of	IN	O
direct	JJ	O
imitation	NN	O
from	IN	O
Republican	JJ	O
tragedy	NN	O
can	MD	O
be	VB	O
identified	VBN	O
.	SENT	O
In	IN	O
the	DT	O
anapaests	NNS	O
,	,	O
some	DT	O
of	IN	O
the	DT	O
hexametric	JJ	O
clausulae	NNS	O
may	MD	O
have	VB	O
been	VBN	O
common	JJ	O
poetic	JJ	O
property	NN	O
;	:	O
in	IN	O
other	JJ	O
cases	NNS	O
,	,	O
a	DT	O
specific	JJ	O
context	NN	O
in	IN	O
Ovid	NP	O
(	(	B-AAUTHOR
e.g.	FW	O
,	,	O
Octavia	NP	B-REFAUWORK
364	CD	B-REFSCOPE
=	SYM	O
met.	NP	B-REFAUWORK
7	CD	B-REFSCOPE
,	,	I-REFSCOPE
346	CD	I-REFSCOPE
)	)	I-REFSCOPE
or	CC	O
Vergil	NP	B-AAUTHOR
(	(	O
e.g.	FW	O
,	,	O
Octavia	NP	B-REFAUWORK
203	CD	B-REFSCOPE
=	SYM	O
georg.	NP	B-REFAUWORK
4	CD	B-REFSCOPE
,	,	I-REFSCOPE
411	CD	I-REFSCOPE
)	)	I-REFSCOPE
can	MD	O
be	VB	O
traced	VBN	O
.	SENT	O

Apart	RB	O
from	IN	O
the	DT	O
three-day	JJ	O
structure	NN	O
of	IN	O
«	)	O
Octavia	NN	O
»	(	O
and	CC	O
the	DT	O
poet	NN	O
's	POS	O
failure	NN	O
to	TO	O
use	VB	O
choral	JJ	O
odes	NNS	O
consistently	RB	O
as	IN	O
act	NN	O
dividers	NNS	O
,	,	O
differences	NNS	O
from	IN	O
Senecan	NP	O
stagecraft	NN	O
are	VBP	O
not	RB	O
great.	JJ	O