This is an analysis of the poem The Birth Of Flattery that begins with:
Muse of my Spenser, who so well could sing
The passions all, their bearings and their ties;... full text
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- Rhyme scheme: ababbbbbbcdcddbdbb cceeffgghhiiggggjjffbXggggkXeeccggddiieeddXggXggbbjjddggbbfffXjjkkiicchhffgghhfffgghXeeggllggggggddiiggeeggaaggffggffmmnnjjiiggffccmmggggfXccjjhhiiiiggiikkggkkfXggggiifXggmmggffffbbiiiiggeeccjjeeccbbddffhhhheebbccciiffgggggbbiigghhiib
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 18,330,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1011011111 0101110111 11011100101 1011011101 0111011101 1101011101 1101011111 0111010111 111111110101 1101110101 1111010111 1100111101 1111000101 1111110101 1101000111 1101110101 1101110001 110111111111 0101111101 1001010101 010011111001 1001010101 1001010101 1101110001 1011011101 1111011111 10111101001 1011110001 01110101001 0101010111 10010011101 01001110111 11011100101 1101011101 11010010111 1111110101 1101111101 1101010101 0101010001 1101010101 1101010111 1101000101 11010111001 0101110001 0101101111 1101011110 1101001101 11001100110 1101110101 0110011101 1111101101 1111000101 1101010101 11001010111 0101000101 11001000101 1111010111 1101111001 1111010101 1011110101 10010101000 0111010101 11111100111 1111101101 1101010101 1001110001 1111011101 11011101001 0111011111 1011011101 1111011101 1111110111 1111111111 1111011111 10110111010 11110111010 1011110001 0111100001 1101110101 1101010111 0101100101 0111010001 1101010101 0101001101 1001011101 1011100101 110100100101 0111110101 1111110101 11001100101 1111010101 1111101111 0101010101 1101111101 1101010111 0101010111 1011001111 1101000100 1011010101 0101110101 0101011101 11111111011 11111100011 0101010101 1101111101 1111010111 0111010101 1101110101 1111110101 1101110111 1011010101 0101010101 1111011101 1111010101 0101111111 1101010101 1101011101 1101011001 1101010101 1101010101 01010001101 0111010101 11110100101 1101010101 1101001010101 1101101101 1111010111 01010100101 1101000111 1001010101 0011010101 1001100101 1101111111 10111110101 1001110001 1101010111 1011110101 0100010111 1101011101 1001001001 0101010001 1101110101 0111100101 010110111 1111010011 1101110101 11010011001 1111010111 1011111111 1111010111 0101010101 1001000101 0101000101 1111010101 1101010101 01111100101 0111010100 11001110101 0011110101 1101000101 1111011111 0101011101 0101000111 1101010101 10001010001 11111101011 11001110101 1101011101 1001110001 1111010101 1111110111 1111010101 0011110111 1101110101 1111011101 1101111111 0101010101 0101110010 1101000111 1111010101 1101010101 1101011101 0101111101 0101010101 1111000101 1111110111 1011110111 1111110101 0101010101 1101000101 1101010111 1011010101 1001000101 01010110001 0100110101 1111010111 1101010111 11011100101 01001110101 1111010111 1101110101 1011010001 11010100101 1111110111 0101010101 111101110001 1101010101 1111000101 1111010101 0111111101 1011010111 11010110101 0101010001 11001111101 1101011111 0111111101 1101011101 11011110101 1101110011 1111111101 1111011101 1101010101 1111010100 11001110101 1101011101 1101110111 1101110111 1111010111 110101111101 11010100111 11001101101 1101011101 0101010101 0111010011 11100100001 1101111101 1001101101 1011110001 1111110101 11010100101 1111110111 1101110101 111010010101 0101011101 1111000101 1011011101 0101010101 1111110111 0111010111 1111110101 11010100101 1101110111 01001110101 1101111001 1101000111 1111010101 1111010111 1111010111 1111010011 1111010101 0101101100 10011110110 1101010000 0101110101 01011101001 1101000101 1011111101 0011011101 1101010101 0100110101 01011101001 11010100101 0111110101 1101110101 0111110100 11001110101 11011111111 0101000101 1101010001 1101010101 01110100101 0101010101 0101110011 0101010101 1101111111 1001000111 100010010111 0101010101 0111110101 1111001101 11010111001 1111011101 11001011100101 1111011101 1101011101 1011111111 0101010101 10001100101 11010101001 11100010110 1101010101 1111010101 1101111101 10010101101 1011010101 1111110101 1111010101 0101110101 1101011101 10011101001 1011110101 1111000101 1101010101 1101011101 0101110101 1111110101 1111011100 1111011101 1111011101 110101110001 1001011101 0101010101 1001001110101 1001110101 0101010111 110101110110 0101010101 1011011101 11001010101 0111111101 01010100111 0111011101 0101010101 0101011101 0110010101 0101010101 1101111101 1111010001 11010101001 1101011101 1101010101 1101110101 0101010101 0101110101 0111010101 0101111100 1101110101 01001011001
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 5226
- Average number of words per stanza: 937
- Amount of lines: 349
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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; her, and, i, to, he, in, that, thy, or, as, let, thee, it, while are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words not, and, what, the, to, thy, let, when, while, there, her are repeated.
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- summary of The Birth Of Flattery;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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