This is an analysis of the poem A Congratulatory Poem that begins with:
While my sad Muse the darkest Covert Sought,
To give a loose to Melancholy Thought; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaabbccbb ddeeffXg hh eedXgfeee a addccggccc cidXjjbbeX kkkaaall ff ffgddddbba aaeeejj jjh hgXgjjmmjj eebbcXiXgccaaa ccnnbbXkkaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,8,2,9,1,10,10,8,2,10,7,3,10,14,11,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1111010101 0101010101 1011000101 0101011111 0101110111 01001010110111 1011111101 1011100101 1011010101 1111110101 1111010101 1011010101 1111010111 0101110101 1101010111 11011111 0101010101 1101010101 0101110101 1111110101 1001010101 01001010101 1101010101 1101110001 1101001111 10010010101 1101011101 0111110101 1101011101 01001010111 10001001101 1101011010 110101010010 0101010101 11010010101 0101010101 1111010111 1001010011 1101010101 1111101111 1111010110 0100010100 10101011101 01010101100 0100011101 11010101001 0101110101 1111010001 11110101001 11010001110 01001011101 1100110101 01011001111 1111011101 11110101001 010101101 0101010101 1101110101 0111010001 10010110101 0101100111 11010010001 10011100101 11011101011 010111001 10011100111 11100111001 0101011101 1011001101 1111110001 0101111101 110101110101 0101010011 1101111101 10100111001 1101110011 1111011101 1101110100 0101011101 1110001101 1101010111 1111010001 11110011001 010010100101 1101110001 10001100101 1001010101 1011010001 1001111101 1101011101 1101011101 11110111101 1001101111 01111100011 1101110111 0101010000 0101011100 11010010010 11010010111 110010100101 1101111101 1111001111 1111110101 0111010111 01001110101 1001011101 11110101111 01001010101 1111000101 1110010011 1001010101 1111000101 11011001101 100101001101
- Amount of stanzas: 16
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 315
- Average number of words per stanza: 54
- Amount of lines: 114
- 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; my, all, your, that, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, a are repeated.
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