This is an analysis of the poem To The King On His Navy that begins with:

Where'er thy navy spreads her canvas wings,
Homage to thee, and peace to all, she brings:... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccddaaeecfgghhiiddhhjjXbbddcf
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 33,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 10011010101 1001110111 0111011101 0111010101 1101001101 1111010101 1101011101 01001010101 1101100101 1111010101 0111011101 1101010100 1101011101 0111011100 1111011111 11111001 1111110101 0101010111 1101010101 11001010101 11001100101 1101010101 1101111101 1101010011 110011001111 1101011101 0101011101 1101011101 1101110011 0101010101 0101010101 11110011100
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 696
  • Average number of words per stanza: 124
  • Amount of lines: 32
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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, thy are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word but is repeated.

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