This is an analysis of the poem Ode Vii: On Liberty that begins with:

Hail! more refulgent than the morning star,
Gay queen of bliss, fair daughter of the sky,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababcdcdeb fgfghbhbbe igigbjbjkk dldlkdkdmm ndadXdidXd bjbjaoaohh kpkpipn jcjXmhmhll jajaXgm dadndgdgjj ibibajajjjXbcbcdhdhna
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,10,10,10,10,10,7,10,7,10,21,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1110010101 1101110001 1111011101 01010011001 11010111001 1111000101 1111011101 1111010111 11000011100 1001101111101 1111010101 111011101 1011010111 1111010101 11001011101 0101111101 1101010101 10000100001 11011011111 110111011100 1111010101 0101001101 01001010101 1001011101 1011111101 10110101001 1011101101 11111001001 1101010101 111111110001 1111110101 0101010101 1111011101 01110010101 1101110101 01011100101 11010010101 1101111001 1101111101 110101110101 011111010010 1101011101 11010100111 1101010101 1111111101 1011110101 11110111001 0101010111 1101110101 011101010101 1111011101 110100101001 11101011101 1001010101 1111010011 1111011101 1100110111 1011101001 1101000101 111101010101 1110010101 0111010101 0101111101 10010101101 1011010111 0101111101 110100010 11110101101 01110100111 11110000101 1101010110 1010111101 11111101001 11010110101 1111001001 1111010101 100101010101 1111010101 1101010101 1101110111 0101010101 110111100 0111010101 1001110 1111010101 1101010101 1011110101 11011101010 1101110101 1101111101 0101110101 11010011101 1101110101 110111111101 1111111001 1111010101 11110011001 1101111101 1111110101 11110110011 1011010111 1001110011 10101110101 110111110101 11110010111 1101110001 11010010101 1111011101 1101110001 10011110101 1111000101 10101010101 1001010101010 010101111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 12
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 438
  • Average number of words per stanza: 76
  • Amount of lines: 114
  • Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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; of, or, with, and, thou, still, no, i are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words or, thou, still, and are repeated.

    The author used the same words or, but at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    The poet repeated the same word name at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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