This is an analysis of the poem The Response To A Festal Ode that begins with:
Heaven shields and sets thee fast.
It round thee fair has cast...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Aabcccb Aadbbbd Aaefffe bbXgggX hhahhha aaeiiie
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,7,7,7,7,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1011111 011111 1101 110101 010111 1100101 0101 1011111 001101 1111 010111 111101 110101 1101 1011111 110101 1101 111101 110101 111101 1011 011101 1100111 1111 0101001 010111 110111 10010 010011 110111 10001 101100 011111 1101001 1011 111101 111101 1101 111101 111101 011011 0101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 180
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- Amount of lines: 42
- Average number of symbols per line: 25 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, thy are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word or is repeated.
The author used the same word heaven at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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