This is an analysis of the poem Blake's Victory that begins with:
On the Victory Obtained by Blake over the Spaniards in the Bay of Santa Cruz, in the Island of Tenerife, 1657
Now does Spain's fleet her spacious... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X aabbccaaccddeeddffggcchhggddhXiiddjjgg hhaakkllmmiihhhhaajjccccnnmm ddddggcc cXiicc llggjjkk ccmm hhooaappaaddiiccggdX hhhhgg ggiiii ggddcqggddccggddll lliill llnn kkddllggXqchhgghh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,38,28,8,6,8,4,20,6,6,18,6,4,17,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 101000111100100010101001001001 1111010101 1011110101 1101111101 1001011101 1011011111 1111001111 10001010111 0101010101 0111010111 11100010111 1111010011 1100111111 1101010111 11010011101 0111011100 1111011101 1101110101 1111110011 1100011011 0101010111 0101011101 1111010111 1111001101 1101010101 1011001101 0111110101 1111001101 1101000101 1101111011 0100110101 0101011111 0100010101 1111011001 1101010111 0101001101 1011010101 1101011101 0101111111 1101110111 0101110101 1111010101 0100010111 1011010111 11001011101 1111011101 1101011011 1011111111 1111110101 1011110111 1011101101 1101110101 1100110101 1001011111 1001010101 1111101101 1100111101 0101111111 1001110101 1101010111 1111110011 1111011101 1101010111 0111110101 0101110110 1111111111 1111101101 1101011101 1101110001 1011001101 1101011111 0101101011 11001010011 1111011111 1111011101 0111010101 1011100111 100011010010 11100101110 1001010011 1001111101 1111011001 01010101011 1101011101 1101111101 0101111111 1001010001 1101011101 0101010011 0111111101 11010001001 111110101 1111111101 1111111111 1101100111 1111010111 1111000111 11011101001 1111011101 0111110101 011110111 11010100111 10111100101 1111011101 1011110111 10111101111 1011111101 1111111101 1111011111 0101001111 1111111101 0111011101 1111111101 0101110101 1101110011 1111011001 01001110001 1101010111 0111010101 01001010101 1100110101 0111100110 11100101101 1011011101 11010000101 1111011111 1110111111 1001100111 1111111001 1011101101 11011101010 1111011111 1001001100 1111000101 1101000111 1101010111 1111010101 01101111101 1101011101 11011101001 1111011111 11001010101 0100001101 0110010101 1101011101 1110010101 11110110101 11001110001 1111111100 11011100111 11011001011 1101110111 0101101111 1111011101 0100111101 1101001100 1011011001 10011100101 1101110111 1011001111 0101010111 10110111110 01001100101 0101110101 1111000101 01011100111 1111110101 11010010101 1101110101
- Amount of stanzas: 15
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 527
- Average number of words per stanza: 95
- Amount of lines: 169
- 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; more, to, and, she, you, they, all, their are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word fear at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of Blake's Victory;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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