This is an analysis of the poem On My Son's Return Out Of England, July 17, 1661. that begins with:
All Praise to him who hath now turn'd
My feares to Joyes, my sighes to song,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcdeaaaafffXXecXegXXaXaaecegXaXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 37,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011111 11001011001 110011101 11111101 11011111 01011101 11110101 01011001 01011111 010010111 11010011 11010101 01011101 11110101 1100011 01111101 01011111 01101001 11011101 11011101 0101101 01111111 10110111 01000100 11011101 11110101 11110110 11110101 111111011 11011101 11110101 11111111 01110101 01010100 11110101 1110110 1111111010110100011001110011101010
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1406
- Average number of words per stanza: 261
- Amount of lines: 37
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (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; to, my, his are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words my, and are repeated.
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