This is an analysis of the poem Paradise Lost: Book 07 that begins with:

Descend from Heaven, Urania, by that name
If rightly thou art called, whose voice divine ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcdefbghigigcbjhXkbgckgllgebdehhglgglakgcbkhighjmgcjbhblhgeegblbXahjlgjbhnejmgXjggjbgglXljgbgocebblkpfbdndbXgjhhgmXgmqbfdjbeheblgbjdfgjXojgjjgcilljhabcljhkgigpgbibifpkhcihjojjlgmbkkhcjaggdhjbggmbgXggggpgggpglchgljkhgXgbbgjggrlgclgpgaXpglXhcdjcjbbkgcjbdjX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 640,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 01010100111 0101111101 1000100100111 010101001 0101011111 1001011101 010101011001 0101011101 1001010110 1011010011 01000010101 0101011111 000100101101 1101111001 11000110101 0110110100 10010110011 1000100101 1001010111 01001010101 11010111001 0101000101 1011110101 1111010101 01111101101 11011101101 01010101001 1101110111 10011010111 1001110111 10011100111 11110100100 0101010001 0111110101 010111111 0101010101 1111110101 0111111101 11110011101 1101011101 0100110101 10110010001 10001110010 01100010101 0101010101 1101010101 0101111101 1100010101 0111011101 11001001001 0101010111 0101011101 0111111011 110100011010 1111010101 0101010101 10110010111 0101010001 0100110101 0110010111 11110001001 1101011101 010110100101 1110010111 1011010111 0101001111 1101110101 1101011101 01010101001 1111010011 11000011101 0101001101 100100001 11001111011 0111010111 11001000011 0101100100 0101010001 1000010001 01111111100 1011010001 1011011101 1101010101 1001110101 1111010111 11010101101 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1001010101 0100110011 0101010101 01010111010 1101011010 10011101010 0101111001 101100101 0101110101 100110010101 01010101110 1100110101 10010101000 1101011101 1101111101 0100010101 1101100101 1001110111 1101010100 1011110011 1100100101 111101001 010011101 1101110111 1101110101 1101110011 0001010100 01111101110 1101010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 28377
  • Average number of words per stanza: 4806
  • Amount of lines: 640
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; with, evil, and, so, to, his, thus, light, waters, for, thousand, their, or, in, of, thou, how, thy are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words of, the, and, their, with, open, to are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines will, appear, seen are repeated).

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