This is an analysis of the poem Upon The Late Storm that begins with:

[And Death of His Highness Ensuing the Same.]
We must resign! Heaven his great soul does claim ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: a aabbccddeeffccXceebbgghheeiijjkkee
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,34,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 11001010001 11011001111 0111100101 0101011111 11111101001 0101011111 0001110011 1101010101 1001010100 1101110111 0101110111 0101111101 10010011101 1011000101 1101000100 10011110101 1011000101 0101111101 1111000101 1101010101 11111100011 1001001101 1101010111 0101101001 1101011101 1011000101 1101010001 0101011101 01111111001 1011110101 1101000101 1001110001 1101010101 1001010101 00101001101
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 773
  • Average number of words per stanza: 136
  • Amount of lines: 35
  • 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; his, from, our are repeated.

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