This is an analysis of the poem Ode On St. Cecilia's Day that begins with:

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Descend ye Nine! descend and sing; ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcbcddeeeffccgghhiaai Xffggggggeehhjj Xgggdgdeegeeeg XggeeeehggffgghcXhiihgg affXiXXggkklleXeciihmmh aggkkgggXdddnneegggggbbggb XooggkkeecccmciXiX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 22,15,14,23,23,26,18,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1 01110111 01010001 10011101 110101 0010101 10100101 101101 101101 011001 10110111 0101010101 1010111 1010101 11011101 11010101 01001011011 010110001101 11010111 0101 1101 0010101 1 1101110101 11111111 00011100101 1001100101 11010101 010001001 100110010101 1100010101 1010101 1010001 1010111 1010101 0101111101 1101010111 1 1111010101 1101010101 1101110101 1101010101 11010101 01010001 01010111 11110101 1000101 11010101 111000101 11111101 010101 1 11111001 11010001 11110101 00110001 1101 1101 1010101 101 101 1011 101 101 101 110101 11110101 11010110 110101 11110011 01010101 101101 0101011101 11100110111 1 1011101 1010111 1011001 1110111 01010100 110001 101011 1010101 1011111 1000101 010110001 1101010101 1111010 010101 1100010 111101 11101 1011101 0101111100 111110 011110 1101100100 1 1111010101 0111011111 1111010101 1111011101 1101010 0101010 111010 10010 101 0101 1101 1101 11010101 1010010 010010 11011 011001 111011001011 11010001001 1111 110110011 100110101 10001 10001 10001110101 1 10010111 110010101 10110101 11011101 11010101 11000101 00010101 1001010101 1011010101 10010111 1101011101 11010101010 11010101 01001111101 0101010101 01010101 010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 649
  • Average number of words per stanza: 108
  • Amount of lines: 141
  • Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, to, arms, she, ever, he, eurydice are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words let, and, what, by, eurydice are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines her is repeated).

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