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How hard is Metamorphoses to read?
By Publius Ovidius Naso · In Latin
- Words for 95% of the text
- 7,473
- Form
- Verse
- Words beyond the 5,000 most common
- 85 per 1,000
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Ovid's Metamorphoses is an intermediate read in our library, though a demanding one. Its sentences are long and it needs a large vocabulary to follow comfortably, with many rare words for myth, nature and the body, such as nymphs, feathers, hooked beaks and gaping jaws. Our measure counts words and sentence length but cannot see verse word order, which spreads a clause across several lines and makes the poem harder than its level alone suggests, so it suits a reader who already handles prose Latin.
MnemoRead measured this book from its full text: how many of the language's most common words you need to follow it, and how long its sentences are.
How hard this book is
Easier than 61% of our Latin books
The score rises with the words needed to cover 95% of the text and with sentence length. It is the same in every language. Books within about ten points of each other read about as hard.
In verse: its sentence length depends on how the edition sets the lines, so the score reads the vocabulary alone.
- Words for 95% of the text
- 7,473
- Form
- Verse
- Length
- Novella
- 78,104 words · ~3-8 hours
- Words beyond the 5,000 most common
- 85 per 1,000
- Dialogue
- 1%
Vocabulary needed
Share of the text covered by the most common words of the language.
Names of people and places count as known words.
Show the numbers
| Most common words | Share of the text |
|---|---|
| 100 | 36.4% |
| 250 | 46.8% |
| 500 | 56.5% |
| 1,000 | 68.1% |
| 2,000 | 79.8% |
| 3,000 | 85.4% |
| 5,000 | 91.5% |
| 7,500 | 95.0% |
| 10,000 | 96.8% |
| 15,000 | 98.5% |
| 20,000 | 99.1% |
| 30,000 | 99.5% |
Words to learn first
The words this book uses most that are not among the 5,000 most common of the language, with how often each appears.
- nymphe×22
- inpius×19
- tollens×17
- aduncus×16
- nais×16
- pluma×15
- impune×14
- rictus×13
- stamen×13
- etiamnum×12
- glaeba×12
- obstipesco×12
- plangor×12
- procus×12
- repetitus×12
- silex×12
- tinguo×12
- armus×11
- baculum×11
- demptus×11
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