This is an analysis of the poem Ode On The Istallation Of The Duke Of Devonshire that begins with:

Hence a while, severer Muses;
Spare your slaves till drear October.... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababcbcXbddcaceacaceeaa eeCcffgghhcici CJCCffaaaaeekkaacjeeCCCJ ccllmmnnmm bbooffffeeeeeeffekdecCicppeieikkmm mmfffXfmmppooeebXiieecajaqq X
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 23,14,24,10,34,27,1,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10110010 11111010 11101010 10011010 1110101 10111110 0101101 1111101 110101010 100101010 10101110 1010110110101 1110110 010111 0111110101 10110101010 010010100111 1101010010 01110101 10111111101 0100010101 11111111 1110101 110101 111101 110101 111101 110101 010101 11101011 1110101 01010101 01010101 1110101 0111011 1101110101 1101111111 1010111 1010100 1010111 1011101 1010101 1111111 10111011 10111011 101111 10101101 11101101 1010101 1110101 1010111 1011101 1010101 10100101 1010100 1110111 1011101 1010111 1011101 1010111 1010100 1101100101 1111110101 1101111101 110111001 1111010101 0101011101 1101010101 0101011101 01100100101 1101010101 1101110 11101010 11110101 11111111 10101011 11111111 111100101 10111001 1001001001 10111001 0101101001 110101101 110010111 1111110101 001111 001001 1010101 11110100101 1101001010 11100101 110101 110101 10111011 110101 11011110110 1101111100110 110111 110111 1110111 1101111 11011101 11011111 01011111 11101101 10010101 1111111101 11010101 1011010101 10010111 011111111 01111101 01010101 11110101 10111101 11011101 1011110101 01100010101 11111111 1010011 1101110 0101100 1110101 1111111 1111111 1111111 1110101 10111 1110100 10101 1010101 1010111 1
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 657
  • Average number of words per stanza: 120
  • Amount of lines: 134
  • Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, let, to, you, of, from are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, health, of, and, can, which, a are repeated.

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