This is an analysis of the poem The Slavery Of Greece that begins with:
Unrivall'd Greece! thou ever honor'd name,
Thou nurse of heroes dear to deathless fame!... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbcc ddee bbddfff bbeeddddbbee aXcc gghhbbddifjjccXejj aaddbbbXbbccdd ccffgXff iXeeee ccaa Xccggaaccdd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,4,7,12,4,18,14,8,6,4,11,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 10001110101 1101010101 1101010101 1101011101 11110000101 1111111001 11010101001 1101010101 1011000101 0101000101 1111010101 1011010101 0101101101 0101000101 0101000101 01001010101 1101010101 1101011101 010110010001 1111010101 1011010101 110110001 1101010001 101001111 1101011101 0101010101 1101011101 110111001 1110000111 1111010111 1010100011100 1111100101 1101110111 0101010101 1011010101 0101010001 0101011101 0101111101 1011110001 1101010101 11010101001 11011101010 1101010101 1110111001 1000101101001 11010101001 111010101 1101000110 110010010101 1011010001 0101010101 0111111111 1111010001 1111110101 1101010101 1101110101 1101010101 1111110101 11010111100 11110010101 1111010101 110001101001 1101010101 1111010101 1101010101 1111010101 1001110001 1101000101 1011000101 0101000101 01010101110 1111010001 1101110101 01011111010 11001010101 0101000101 0101010001 1101011101 1111011001 0101110101 1101010101 1011101101 1101001011 1111111101 10111110101 11110100101 1111010101 0101010101 01010010101 1111110001 101001010101 01110101001 1101000101
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 376
- Average number of words per stanza: 63
- Amount of lines: 103
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (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; to, with, how, here, thy, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words to, here, the are repeated.
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