This is an analysis of the poem A Panegyric that begins with:
[To my Lord Protector, of the Present Greatness, and Joint Interest, of His Highness, and this Nation.]
While with a strong and yet a gentle hand, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a bbcc aadd eeff ffgg ffcc XXhh ffbb ffaa iiie ffcc ddjj jjbb ffii ddii ccaa iicc iiaa ccff bbcc bXbb bbgg bbgg ccee Xagg ffbb ffcc eikk eell aakk mmjj bbaa aabb eiaa jjff mmbb ccii nnff lloo iihh bbcc iill aaff ffff ieff aaoo iippXbbcc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 0110100001101110000101010 1001110101 1101011101 0110011001 1111111101 1101010101 1011011101 1111001111 0101011101 0101110101 0101110101 1111010101 1001010101 1101010101 01110101001 01010010101 1001010111 0111111101 0101110011 11001111111 1101010111 10111010011 0101010101 0001011101 0101010101 1001000101 1011000100 1101001101 0001010011 1000111101 1001110111 1111011101 1101010101 110111101 11001110101 1011110101 0111001101 0101010101 1101010101 1101010001 110110111 1001110101 1101010101 11001110101 1111010111 1011101100 1111110101 1101110001 0101010001 1101010001 1101010101 0011111101 1111110001 1101110101 1001111001 11111111001 1101010101 01010100111 1001011101 0101010111 10110101001 0111110111 11010010101 10010101001 1101111101 1001011111 1111111111 1101010111 1101010101 1011010111 11001010111 1111100101 1101010111 1111010101 1111000101 0101010111 0111111001 1101110101 01010010101 1101000101 1111000101 01100011111 0100010111 1101010011 0011011101 1011011101 0011010011 1101111101 1101010111 1111101001 1101011101 1101110111 1011010101 01110100100 1011000111 1101011111 1101110001 1101010011 0100010011 11110111001 1001010111 1001110010 0011010100 1001010011 1011001101 0111110001 0101010101 1101010111 1101010101 1101011101 1111100101 1101010101 0101010111 1101110101 1001011101 1011010101 1101111101 0101010101 1101111101 1011110111 1101010101 1111011101 11011010101 01011101011 11110110001 1101001101 1101111111 0100110110 010101011 1111011101 0101001111 11010101101 1101101001 1101001101 1101010111 1001110101 1101010111 1111010111 1101011101 10001011001 01010101001 1111010101 1101011111 1101111011 0101110101 11110101010 10010111110 1101010101 1101010011 011110101 0101110111 0101010111 1101010011 1111010101 1011010011 0101011101 0111010101 0111011111 1001011101 11111111011 01010010111 1111000111 11011111001 01001011101 0111010111 1101010101 1101011111 0101010101 1101110101 1011010111 0100100101 1101101101 0101011101 1101001111 0111011011 1101010101 1101001101 1011110101 1101011101 1111010101 0101111101 010011100101 11001000101 1011110111 1111111101 0111110101 10101010101 1111010101 1101110011
- Amount of stanzas: 48
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 176
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- Amount of lines: 189
- 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; and, to, our, with, you, your, their, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
The poet repeated the same word rest at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The words/phrases one, you connect the lines.
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- summary of A Panegyric;
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