This is an analysis of the poem A Pangyre that begins with:

On the happy entrace of Iames, our Soveraigne, to His first high Session of Parliament in this his Kingdome, the 19 of March, 1603.
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  • Rhyme scheme: XX a bbcXXXddeeffggggff ccXXccffXXaaeeXgccggaaXXcchhiiaaXaffXX bbaaccaaaaaahhXecceXggffjjXgaaXieeaaXXeeaabbaaggaagghXggkkddbbccccXXdXc cXfllkkaaddllccmmXXaajX cXXdXXddXXll X
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,1,18,38,71,23,12,1,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 101010010110000111001000001001011 101011001 1 1111011101 01011001101 1001001101 01101001110 01010100111 01001110001 01010010101 1101011101 001111011 1101111011 11100000101 1101011101 1000110101 1111010101 01110100101 1111011011 1101010101 1011001111 0011110011 11110010001 0101110111 110100100101 0101110101 111100101 0001011101 1111110101 010110101 1001011110 11010110001 1101110001 0111100101 1001111101 1001010111 01011111001 110101011 1011111110 1011110011 1111110101 1011010111 1100110101 1101010101 01010010110 1011110101 1110010101 11001010111 0101101101 11111111001 0101110101 1101111101 01001011100 1101010111 1101011111 1101010111 0101100101 0011011100 01110101000 0101010111 1111111101 1011010001 0111010111 1001000101 0101010101 110011010101 01001100101 1101111101 11010101111 01011101011 0101010101 0101010101 0101110101 0101110111 1101011101 11010010101 0101000101 0111100101 1111000011 1101111111 11110101001 11110110101 11110111111 1111111111 1111010100 1101110101 1011010111 1101110011 1101010011 1001111111 1101111111 1110000101 1111010101 111010111 1111011001 11110101110 11010101001 1111111101 1111010101 1101011101 11011100101 1101010100 1101111101 1111000101 1101000101 10110101010 11010111010 1101011101 1101001111 1011110101 1101010011 1011110101 1101110010 1111110001 1111111111 1111011111 01010011111 1111111011 1101001100 1101111101 1111010011 1100010101 1101111101 1111110101 1001010101 10010100110 0101010011 1111010111 11110111110 1111111101 0111011101 1101110101 1111010101 01011011001 0101010001 11010101001 0101110101 1100110101 11010100101 1101010101 1101110101 1100010001 0100010101 1101010111 11111100001 0111111101 1101000111 010110010 1011111111 1101010101 0101110001 0011010111 1111000110 1001011101 110101101110 0101111000 0100010101 10010101001 1011110010 1001111101 1111011001 1111010110 0011010111 1111010111 1011011011 101101100100
  • Amount of stanzas: 8
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 937
  • Average number of words per stanza: 169
  • Amount of lines: 171
  • 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; of, to, his, and, her, their, they, who, 'where, as, he are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words to, and, as, the, 'where, he are repeated.

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  • summary of A Pangyre;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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