This is an analysis of the poem Ode On The Insurrection In Candia that begins with:

STR. 1
I laid my laurel-leaf... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: X aabccbdd X ebebfefeggff X bhbcbhbch eieieieii ecidecijc kcfgkcfgc X jldljl gkgkgk lklklk gegege X kckcXmXcmcXcXcc X gghhhhfX X nbnbkhkhhhkk X cikociXoi icehicehc lcXXlccXc gebigXXie X kbkbkb dijiji pipipi jcjcjc X cbcbcbcqbqcqcqc X aeaeaebcbcbcaaccnbbnc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,8,1,12,1,9,9,9,9,1,6,6,6,6,1,15,1,8,1,12,1,9,9,9,9,1,6,6,6,6,1,15,1,56,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11 111101 101101 101010111001 010001 111101 11010101001 01010011 1100111101001 11 1101110011 11011111001 1101110111 1011010111 1011110111 100100101001 10010110011 101001000101 0101001111 0111111101 1111010011 101111010101 11 01100101 00101011 00101001 01001001 0100111 1111001 010111001 1110101 11101 00111001 00101001 001001001 00111001 01001011 0111001 1101001 1111111 10111 1101111 1010101 1101001 1101101 1101011 11001111 1100101 1010010010 00101 0010111 10100101 10110101 11100101 00110101 01101101 11100111 01001001 01101 11 111010 111111 01101 110111 001010000010 001100110101 11101 011101 11111 110101 01101010101 11111010101 11111 010101 11111 111111 00101111111 11101110001 10101 110101 00101 011111 101110100101 10101010111 11 1111110 1111101 0111101 10100101 1010111 1010111 1010111 00111010 0110101 101001010 10101010 01101010 10101100 10111110 0011001 11 111101 111111 0101111101 100111011 1111110101 10011111001 111110111 11111101010100 11 11111101000 1111110111 0100010011 111101100100 1101010101 11011101110 1101011111 1111011101 10101111111 01010110101 1011111011 01001110011111 11 101101001 1100111 01110010 1101111 1110111 01001001 01001100 0110001 00101 00101001 1101101 10111011 10111101 0100101 0101001 0111001 1111101 10111 1110101 00101101 10010000 10000100100 0111101 100101001 01001010 1011011010 11101 1110111 1011001 11010010 10101101 1110111 1011111 111111100 1110111 10101 11 11111 011111 11101 010101 10101010101 10111010111 11101 010111 001010 0100101 1111000010010 11111111111 10011 1100101 11001 111101 00101000111 10101110111 011010 010111 1010010 10101101 101011101010 11101110101 11 11101010 10101010 00100010 00110010 1011101 1011011 1110111 10111110 0110101 10101110 1010111 11101010 1010011 10101010 1010001 10 111011101 1011110111 11011100111 1101010101 011100111001 11001110101 010110111101 0111110111 0101010111 0110010101 0011001101 110101 1101010111 0100100111 0101001 101111 1001110111 111101 101100 1011010111 111101 101101 1100101110 011101 010101 01011100111 101111 110111 111110001 1110010 1111110 1111011101 110101 1101000 0100010001 10011110 1101110 1100111101 111101 1111001 01011101001 110111 01100 1101110101 110101 100101 110101001111 111101 1000111 1001001101 1111001 0111111 1110011111 111111 111101 111111111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 34
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 278
  • Average number of words per stanza: 49
  • Amount of lines: 257
  • Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; who, and, if, of, as, from, be, with, we, these, her, many, all, by, thy, sons, o are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words who, if, the, from, let, nor, o, that, with, in, as, and, a, her, all, by are repeated.

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