This is an analysis of the poem An Horatian Ode Upon Cromwell's Return From Ireland that begins with:

The forward youth that would appear
Must now forsake his Muses dear, ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeeaaccffgXhhcccciijjaacXiiffkklleeiihhccmmeekkhhkkggccffXXkkkkccffjjccccffggeeXhXcggnnaaiiaaddggffffllaakkcccckk
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 120,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 01011101 11010101 100111 010100 11010101 11101101 010001 010001 11010111 000100101 111001 10101 11011101 10011011 010011 0100101 11110101 01001100 101001 011001 11010111 11001101 110111 010101 11000111 01010101 101111 100101 10010101 1101101 100101 010100 110100101 01001101 110101 000101 11001101 11010101 111111 111111 10110100 01010101 111111 110101 11010101 10010101 110111 110101 11010101 11010101 1100111 0100101 11010101 01010101 11011 011101 11010011 01110001 100101 010101 11010101 01000101 110101 110101 011100010 1101011 111001 010011 01011110 01010101 110101 110101 11010101 01010111 111111 111111 11010101 11110101 101011 111101 11110001 11000101 111001 111101 10010110 01010111 111110 010101 11011110 01010101 110101 110001 11011111 11011101 111111 010101 11111101 11000111 111101 011111 01011101 01001100 101111 110000 01110111 01010101 100101 110101 10000101 01010101 110101 0101001 11011101 11000001 110101 111101 01010101 01000101 011101 011001
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 3701
  • Average number of words per stanza: 659
  • Amount of lines: 120
  • Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, and are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, the are repeated.

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