This is an analysis of the poem Parliament Of The Ages that begins with:

OF all who’d thronged the Commons’ galleries
For early April evening’s main debate,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abc bd aeX de Xaadf ac cXX gbdeX ac hgc iacce ddbj k bcabc ihedg bgdeg dldcj dmd bd dceee chdec XaXX j cdb cd nbbe a fncbe aXXjb caegc XiXag lmegi egh Xi ebclX aacnd dlff a icbbb klbcg Xjgdd gggdd b chbb lcc ae Xmhgj jdbgj dacdjXd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,2,3,2,5,2,3,5,2,3,5,4,1,5,5,5,5,3,2,5,5,4,1,3,2,4,1,5,5,5,5,5,3,2,5,5,4,1,5,5,5,5,1,4,3,2,5,5,7,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 0111010100 1101010101 1101010101 1101010101 1111111101 1100110101 01010100101 0101010100 0101010001 01011100101 01001010101 01010011101 11001010101 0101010101 0101000101 1111010100 0101011001 1001010111 0101010101 0111011101 0101010101 01110100001 0101010101 1101000100 1101110101 1111110101 11000100101 0101011101 11011000101 1001010111 0111000111 1001110101 1111110101 1101010111 0101011101 01110000101 11001110101 1101010001 0101010101 1101010101 01011101001 01001000101 1101111101 11010010101 11011001001 1101110101 1001111101 1111111101 1111010111 0111111101 1111010100 1111010111 1100011101 1100101110101 1101110101 1111110101 1001000100 1111010001 0101010101 01010000101 0111010001 1101010101 1111010101 1001010101 010000100101 01001010101 1001001101 0101111101 1110011101 11001001101 0101010101 11010010111 0101000101 1101010100 11111100101 1101001000 0110001001 0100011101 0101110100 1101010101 0101001111 1101111101 1101010101 1111000101 11001011111 1101010101 1111010100 0111110101 1001010101 01011010101 11110100101 0101010101 01001001101 010100100100 01010010100 100011101011 11001010100 10010010100 10010011100 010100100 0101110101 1101011111 1111011101 10110100111 1101110101 0111010101 0101010001 0111010101 0111011100 0111011100 1111011100 1101010111 0111110101 0101010001 0111111101 1001010011 1101001100 01010010001 110101010 1101010101 01010010001 1101010101 0101110101 1101110100 0101010101 1101010101 11110100101 1101010101 01010101001 1101010100 1101011101 1101011100 01001000101 1101110101 11010010101 011011101 1101010101 1101010101 0111010100 01010010100 0101110101 11010011010 1001010111 1101010101 1100010101 1111010001 1100111101 11110101001 01010100101 01001011101 0101110101 1101010011 0111000101 110011000100 1000010100 1111010100 0111000101 110101001 11010110100 1101011100 01010100100 010010010101 01110100101 11010101001 0111010101 1001010000 1101010101 1001010101 1101010101 10001010101 1101110111 0101010101 0101011111 1100011101 11010110001 1011011101 11010011101 01000100001 1000010011 0101000101 1111111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 50
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 154
  • Average number of words per stanza: 26
  • Amount of lines: 184
  • Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, and, s, with, some, who are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words from, with, and, the are repeated.

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