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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