This is an analysis of the poem A Defence Of English Spring that begins with:
Unnamed, unknown, but surely bred
Where Thames, once silver, now runs lead,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbaaccddeeff ggaaddhhiiaagg ggggccaacXaaeeccgXccbbjjkcllkkmmnnaannnkkmmhh jjddeecXkkXiggaaoohhmmkkhhddmm iiXXjjddXaXkddkXkknoiiiiiiaaaahh ddmmccbbccaabbccbbeeeXkkmmggddhhiigXppmmbbiiiikkeekkccjj kkmmqqaacceebbXmmiirroojjeecceeee cckkgXaakkooeeaa aakkiie
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,14,45,30,32,56,33,16,12,28,51,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01011101 11110111 11010111 11010101 1101111 11010101 0110101001 11000010 11011101 110001001 11010111 10011101 110001101 11010101 11011101 10111100 010011011 11110101 01010111 11110111 11011101 0100001001 11011101 10110111 11111111 11010101 11011111 001011101 10111101 00010111 01110101 111111001 11011111 11110001 11111111 11011101 01011111 11011000 11111101 11010101 11110111 10110101 11001111 11110101 11001111 10001010 11110111 11001001 11000101 011101001 10011111 10110111 110001101 11010110 11111111 110101011 11011111 11001101 11111101 11011111 10110111 11010111 01010101 01010101 11011111 11111011 01010101 11111111 010100101 11010101 11010101 0100101101 01000101 11010111 01110111 110101001 11011101 11111111 111101101 11110111 11110100 11010001 010111001 010111010 101111101 110100101 11010101 110010101 1100110 110101010 111111110 10110101 011100001 10110101 01000011 11011011 11011101 11010111 01010011 11111101 11111111 11110001 11010101 10011111 01000101 11010111 11110110 10011111 001101111 010111110 011001010 111100010 01011101 11110100 01010011 110100101 101111111 01011101 11011100 11110101 10110101 10011111 00010100 11110101 11011101 01001111 01010101 110101001 01011000 11110101 11001101 00110111 11010101 11110101 01010100 11111111 11111011 11010101 11011101 11110101 100101001 11010101 110101001 11100101 011011011 10011101 01110101 010010111 10110101 01010101 001111001 1100111001 11010101 10010101 11010111 01010101 11110100 01110111 100100111 11010001 01010101 110101001 11111101 10010101 01110110 011100101 01010001 10100101 11010001 01011011 10111000 10010111 01000101 10011111 11110101 11011101 11011111 11010101 11111101 10110101 01100001 11011101 10011110 11101101 01110001 11010101 11110101 10010111 11110111 11011111 01111111 11111110 01010101 010111001 00110111 01010111 10010101 010011011 01010101 1011010110 110111010 110011111 11010100 11011101 11111111 111100110 11111101 110010111 11110101 01001011001 01010101 11011111 11011100 01010100 10011101 001000101 01010101 01110111 11111101 01110111 01000101 01011101 00010101 11000101 11010111 10011101 110111001 010010111 01011111 01111101 11001101 01010111 11011111 110001001 110011110 010111010 11011111 11011111 11010101 11001101 11010111 00100001 010010001 10000100 10111111 01110101 10010101 11010101 11101101 11111111 1001111010 111111010 01001101 11010111 10111101 11010101 10011111 01110111 110111001 11010101 10100010100 01010111 11010011 00110101 11011101 01001001 11010101 10010111 01110111 01010001 01010001 10011101 11010111 01100101 11010111 01010101 110010111 110010101 11111101 110010101 11011111 11010101 11111101 11110111 10110111 11011101 01111111 01110101 10010111 10010100 11110111 10011111 01111111 110011001 111101101 110101001 111110111 01110101 11110101 11010101 01110101 010110101 11111001 01001101 10110111 110010101 10010111 11011001 1100001 100101010 01010011 110100111 11011101 11110101 11011111 11111001 01010101 11010101 111010101 11011001 11010111 11011111 11111101 011011111 010011001 01010111 01011101 11011101 01010101 11011101 110000111
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1071
- Average number of words per stanza: 191
- Amount of lines: 331
- Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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; to, and, you, their, in, as, with, cuckoo, through, one, that, we, of, it are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, with, the are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines it is repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase this connects the lines.
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