This is an analysis of the poem Ode To Sir William Sydney, On His Birthday that begins with:
Now that the harth is crown'd with smiling fire,
And some do drink, and some do dance,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbbXaccddedCcdeXXffXfggfXhheeigjjgidXeefiffXfggXXkjcCjkddff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 60,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010101010 11111111 11 11 111110 01010 10011 1101 1101 1101110001 11111001001 11110101 01 11 111111 1111 1101 01110 1111 1100110101 01110100110 11011111 11 11 111101 11110 1111 0101 1010 1110111011 1101000101 0101101 11 10 111111 1101 1101 1110 1111 0101100111 1001001111 11011111 11 01 111101 1110 1101 1111 11110 011001011110 1111010101 000110010 11 01 0111010 1001 0111 1001 01101 0111111111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1499
- Average number of words per stanza: 292
- Amount of lines: 60
- Average number of symbols per line: 24 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; some, whose are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words some, and are repeated.
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