This is an analysis of the poem A Festal Ode Complimenting An Officer that begins with:
On dashed my four steeds, without halt, without stay,
Though toilsome and winding from Chow was the way....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabBc ddbBc CcbBc CcbBc bbeec
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,5,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 11111011011 11011001101 11001101101 01101001011 111101001 11111111001 11011011011 110011110001 01101001011 111101101 100010011011 01011011001 1110101101 01101001011 111011101 100010011011 11001110101 101011111101 01101001011 011011011 11111011111 11111111001 11001111001 01001101111 111011001
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 241
- Average number of words per stanza: 43
- Amount of lines: 25
- Average number of symbols per line: 47 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, i are repeated.
The author used the same words on, unresting at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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