This is an analysis of the poem Ode--'On A Distant Prospect' Of Making A Fortune that begins with:

Now the 'rosy morn appearing'
Floods with light the dazzled heaven;... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: Xabababa cdXdeXef ghgXXiji gdgXdXXX jcXcjgjg bkbkghjh XiXiffff ljljmjmX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10101100 10101010 10111110 10101110 10100010 010101001 10110010 1010101 10101010 1001111 111001100 00101001 10111110 1011111 11101010 1110101 11100111 1110101 11101011 11101010 10100010 1110111 11100010 00111011 10101110 1111111 11101011 10101010 11100010 1010101 10101010 1010110 10101010 10101001 11100110 1000101 01111010 1011001 10101110 1110101 10101110 1011101 10111010 1011111 10100110 0111111 100101100 1011101 101011100 10110111 110001000 0010101 101111101 1010111 100101011 1010101 11101010 1011101 10100010 1010111 11111010 0111111 111010010 1110010
  • Amount of stanzas: 8
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 253
  • Average number of words per stanza: 45
  • Amount of lines: 64
  • Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • 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, me are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines me is repeated).

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