This is an analysis of the poem Upon My Son Samuel His Goeing For England, Novem. 6, 1657. that begins with:

Thou mighty God of Sea and Land,
I here resigne into thy hand... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaXXbbccdXeeffXXddbb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 20,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11010111 11100011 0101010010 011111010 11111111 11011111 11111111 11111101 11111101 110101101 01110111 01111111 10111101 11011101 11110111 1101101110 01011101 10111101 10111111 11010001
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 714
  • Average number of words per stanza: 142
  • Amount of lines: 20
  • Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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; of, him, me are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.

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