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This poem was written in , on occasion of the contest between the
Earls of Hardwicke and Sandwich for the High-stewardship of the... full text

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  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,806,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
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  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 18277
  • Average number of words per stanza: 3252
  • Amount of lines: 816
  • Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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, and, in, thou, made, whom, such, why, with, to, they, enough, know, mine, me, from, high, thy, my, when, friends, where, her, his, be, this, saw, by, our, that, what, men, who, should, chaste, nor, then, blest, they're, how, he are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words whom, to, enough, when, where, is, his, were, such, of, shall, with, saw, this, what, blest, who are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines the, 'em are repeated).

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The words/phrases confess, more, spain, some connect the lines.

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