This is an analysis of the poem George Chapman:Xi that begins with:
HIGH priest of Homer, not elect in vain,
Deep trumpets blow before thee, shawms behind... full text
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaabbaccdcdd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1101010101 1101011101 1100010111 11010010011 11001001101 11110110011 1101100101 1101111001 11011101011 11001100111 11110111101 1101010001 1111110111 10111100101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 658
- Average number of words per stanza: 114
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (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; thy, and are repeated.
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