This is an analysis of the poem To My Lady Berkeley that begins with:

Afflicted upon her Son, My Lord Berkeley's Early Engaging in the Sea-Service.
So the renowned Ithacensian Queen... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: a bbcXXdbb eeff ddggaX afffdXdXggbbdd ccddXchhbbiiddbbjjddgX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,8,4,6,14,22,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 010010111101001000110 100110001 0110100011 1101100101 01010101010 1101010101 1111010101 1101011101 1111110001 1101011001 0100110101 01111011001 111111101 0101010101 0101010101 1011010101 1101000101 10110101111 0101111000 0111110101 1001001111 10101010101 01001111101 1100110101 10010101100 0100110101 0101000011 10010111101 1001100001 0101010101 0101010101 1111011101 1001011101 0101010011 10101011101 1100011101 1101010011 1101000101 0101011101 1100011111 1101010001 1111010111 0101010001 11100110101 1011011101 1101011101 11110100101 1111111101 1001010101 10101110111 0101110101 0101010111 1101011111 0101001100 011110100
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 399
  • Average number of words per stanza: 72
  • Amount of lines: 55
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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; he is repeated.

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

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