This is an analysis of the poem Ode To Hope that begins with:

I. 1.
O Thou, who glad'st the pensive soul,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: X abbacdcdede XfddfdgXgfXgf Xddhhibbbibjjbaaee Xgddgkgkgceec Xfddfdldldmmd XhhfnXdddgdnndffgg Xiaaifknkfggf XXooibibcffc XmmeeXdddfppfeefX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,11,13,18,13,13,18,13,12,17,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11 11110101 1110010101 111101 1101011101 1101110001 11001010011 11011100101 110010110101 11101111 11010101 111001 11 11110101 1101011011 010101 1111010101 0101010101 11101010111 01010101100 1011000101 110101001 0110010010 11010101 110101 11 1101110101 010101001 11010101 010011101 01011101 0101 0101 10110001 11010101 110100101 11110010 110101010 011100001 1011011101 0011011101 11000101 100101010101 11 11110101 1101110101 110101 11010111001 1101110101 0101110111 11110010101 0101010101 01111101 1101110101 01011101 010101 11 01110001 10010011001 110111 1111010111 01000101001 1010000111 1100110101 0111010101 10110101 0100110111 110100101 11001001 11 11110001101 01110101 11110101 11011100 01001110 1101 0101 1100111001 111101 111101001 11111010 010101010 10110111 1101111101 1111110101 11110011 1101010100101 11 11110001 1101010001 1100101 0101110101 1101000101 1101001101 1101110100 1001110101 010101001 1101010101 11010101 010101 11 11010101 1001010011 111101 01111101001 0101010101 10110101001 0101000101 01010101 1101110111 11110101 110101 11 1101011101 11010011 10011001 111100101 01010101 1101 1101 11010011 11110101 11101010 101100010 01010101 1111100101 101010010101 101100111 010101111000
  • Amount of stanzas: 10
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 456
  • Average number of words per stanza: 78
  • Amount of lines: 129
  • Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.

    The author used the same words i, ii, iii at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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