This is an analysis of the poem From 'The History Of Samson' that begins with:

The Argument.
He goes to Timnah : as he went... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: a abab X aaXcddXeffggbbccXhaXXddddccccaabbaacciiXcbbfXeejjddXgXXeekkdddXXjddccbb X ggjjllbbmmggeejjggaabbeeaaXXjjXjXXjjaXccXgddhhggaaXhXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,1,71,1,54,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 0100 11010111 11010101 111000101 11011101 101 1011100101 0101001101 10010101100 0101000011 11001011101 1011100101 110010101100 01010111010 1101010101 01011001011 11111010101 0101001101 110101001 1101011101 01110100111 0111010101 01101111101 1101110101 0100010101 1101010110 111100 0101010101 1101111001 1101000101 0101110001 1111110101 1101110101 1101001101 0101010101 0101000101 01101110111 1111010101 11011101101 0101010111 0101011101 110110111 1101110001 0101111101 1101111011 1101010110 010010100101 0101011001 01010110101 0101010101 0101010110 01010110010 01010101010 1010010111001 0101101111 1101000111 00110001001 1101110111 101010111 10010101000 01010001010 110100110110 01010111110 01010101010 101010111110 0101110101 1101100101 1100101111 11011101100 01011000110 111110101 11111011101 1101000101 0101011101 01011010111 1010011011 01101010101 1001 1101010001 11010101001 0101010101 11010111101 0101001101 1101000101 1101010101 01011010001 1001010111 1110110101 01010100010 010101101010 110101010010 100111101110 11111011101 0101100101 010100011110 0101100010 11011100001 1011000101 1001111101 0101110101 01100100010 10010101010 0101010110 1111010101 1101001110 0101111100 1101010101 11001110001 1101110010 1101111101 11010100010 011001111 1101011101 1001110001 1111111010 11010101000 1101010111 01001010101 11110111100 01111111010 1101010101 1011000101 1001110101 11111110100 1101110011 1101110111 1111010101 10011010101 01110101001 0011010110 0111110110 0101110110
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 952
  • Average number of words per stanza: 166
  • Amount of lines: 133
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; he, his, their, to, she, that, must are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words he, your, his, the are repeated.

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