This is an analysis of the poem The Temple Of Fame that begins with:

In that soft season, when descending show'rs
Call forth the greens, and wake the rising flow'rs;... full text

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  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 193,80,246,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 0111010101 1101110101 1101010101 1101010101 1101111101 1101110011 11010100101 1101011101 0101001101 11010100101 1110011111 0101010011 0111010101 11011100101 1101110101 1101010101 1101010101 1111010101 1011010101 0101110101 10011011101 10110101001 1101011101 11010100110 11010100101 1101010101 1001110101 0101110101 1101010101 01010100111 0101101101 1111110101 1101110111 1101010101 1101111101 1011110101 1111011011 1111011101 1101110101 1101011101 11101001101 1101000101 1111011101 1111000111 1101001101 0111000101 1111110101 11011000101 0111010111 1101101001 1111000101 1101010101 11011101001 1110110101 11101010101 0101010101 10110110101 1101110101 0101000100 10010101101 0101111101 10011110110 1101010101 1101011101 01001010101 1101110101 0101010001 1101010101 1101111101 1101110101 0101000101 1001010101 1101010101 10010010001 1101001101 1011010011 11010101001 0101110110 11001001001 1110010001 11011111001 11001110001 1011110101 101010101 1110010101 1001010001 1101010001 1111010101 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  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 7701
  • Average number of words per stanza: 1320
  • Amount of lines: 519
  • Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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; and, their, of, or, with, in, his, her, thousand, so, our, to, by, it, if are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, his, but, here, of, with, as, and are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines day, mold are repeated).

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