This is an analysis of the poem New-Englands Crisis that begins with:

IN seventy five the Critick of our years
Commenc'd our war with Phillip and his peers.... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccccbb ccddeeaaaaffccgghhiicceeaaXajjhXeabbkkccXjccddaaccbbddcccchhlleeccXeeeeabbddddaaXmhhddddccaannaebbXoeekkhhbXllbbaaiieeddaaccmmiiddeeccddddaaaaddbbccnnaaXeaaaaccooccccllmmddhhccjjjjbbddbbaappXbXbbbeeaabbeeaaeeccbbaXeeddeaaaddeaddjjbbXXbbeeiicXb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,284,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 01001010010 0111010101 10010101010 01011101010 1011010101 1101011001 1011010001 1100110101 01011100101 1111010101 1110110101 0101011101 0101010001 0101100101 1110110111 0101010001 11011100010 100010101010 10111001111 1111110101 1111010111 1101110111 0111010101 1101010101 0110011101 1111010101 1101111101 1011101101 1111111101 1111110101 1101111101 1111101111 1011111101 1101101101 0101010101 11111111010 1111011111 1101110011 0111110111 01010111101 01011100101 110011111110 0110001101 1101011101 0101011101 1101010101 0101000101 1101010101 1111010111 0111110111 1111111111 10110011110 1101011101 00010000101 01001111010 11010101010 11010101001 01011101010 1101010001 1101010101 0101011111 1101111101 0101010101 110110001 0111010101 1001010101 010010010111 1111110111 0111110101 1001001101 1011000111 1101010111 1101000101 1111011101 1101010101 1001111111 11001111101 1001010101 10010011101 0111000101 1101001101 0101000101 11010111011 1111010101 01010001010 010100101010 1101110101 01001011101 1010010001 01110101001 1100110101 1101001001 1101110101 01010010101 0101011101 10011010101 1101110101 1011111111 01110100101 1001010101 10110110101 11111000101 11001010101 1101010101 1101110101 01110111001 111101101 1111110101 1011010111 1111110101 11010100111 1101110001 1101010111 01010011111 0111001101 01001010111 11111101001 1101001100 11001110101 11010100101 0101011001 01011111010 0101011101 11011001111 1111010101 0101010111 1101010101 0001101101 1101110101 1011110111 1101000101 1101011101 0101110101 01110001001 0101010111 01001110111 0101111101 1101111101 1111011101 0011011101 1011111101 0111010101 1101011001 1001000101 1001011101 1101000101 1101011011 1101010001 1101010111 1101001101 110111001 1101011101 1101011101 1001001001 0111010101 1101011101 0101001101 0101010101 0111010101 0101011101 1011000101 1011011001 1101110101 0101011101 0101010101 1001010111 0111011001 1101100101 11010010101 0001011111 1111010111 1101010101 1101100101 0101011111 11010111111 0111010001 1110010101 1101001111 1111010101 0111000111 1100011101 0101111101 1101001101 01110101101 0101001101 1011010001 111010111 1111010111 1111011101 1111010101 11011100010 11011011010 0101110101 1101100101 10011011111 011110011 1101101111 1101011111 11010101010 01000111110 0111110101 1101010111 01010111100 0101010101 0101111101 0111001101 1101001101 0111000101 11001000101 111011101 1111011001 01000101111 1111011101 1101011111 11110111110 111101110010 01010101101 1111010111 10001111011 1001010111 0111011111 1101010101 11010110110 110011111010 01110101101 1101110001 1111011111 1111001101 1001011111 1111001111 1101011101 10110010101 11110101010 00010001110 1001010001 1101111111 11010101001 1011011101 01001011101 1101010111 1011110101 1111110101 010111010010 01011111110 1001011101 11011101001 01110001101 10010100101 110111001001 0101100101 1101001111 11110010101 010101001 0111100101 1111010101 0101110101 11001011111 0111010101 1000010001 1001010101 1101010011 1111011101 1101011111 1000010101 1011000101 110001101 11110101010 10100010001 1110010101 11010010101 11011111110 1110000101 11110010101 0101011101 10110011001 1100110101 1001011101 1101010100 1001001101 1101011101 11010101010 01010011111 101111011001 1011010101 01010100111 10010100001 1011110101 1011110101 0101110101 011011001 01010100001 10101011101 1001110011 0111010101 1101011001 1010001100 0111011101 0101010111 01010101110 1101001101 0101011101 1111010001
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 4390
  • Average number of words per stanza: 786
  • Amount of lines: 304
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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; whither, his, our, they, to, of, every, sometimes, and, as, too, in are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words wee'l, the, sometimes, and, are, if are repeated.

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  • summary of New-Englands Crisis;
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