This is an analysis of the poem To My Grandson William, on his Repeating to me most perfectly and accurately my Poem, The Fall of Ne that begins with:

To My Grandson William, on his Repeating to me most perfectly and accurately my Poem, The Fall of Needwood, which he had secretly got by Heart. ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: X XabbXX aXcc ddbbeebbffbb aXffbbcc ddgghhcc iicXjjaaffbbgg
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,6,4,12,8,8,14,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 01111010010011100110001100101011110011110101 111101 111100011 010010001 11000101 11111111 11011111 01000101 11010101 11110001 11010101 01010101 01010111 100100101 110101001 11111101 11111011 10110111 11011001 01000101 11110111 11000111 11010001 01000111 1011010110 100010101 100110001 11010101 10011101 01010001 11010111 11110101 110010001 01010111 11010001 11110101 11111111 11000111 11110101 101001001 11011101 11000101 0110001 10010101 10010101 01000111 01010101 11010101 01110101 01110101 11110111 11010101 10010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 280
  • Average number of words per stanza: 50
  • Amount of lines: 53
  • Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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; my, to are repeated.

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

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