This is an analysis of the poem To The Duke Of Dorset that begins with:

Dorset! whose early steps with mine have stray'd,
Exploring every path of Ida's glade; ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaaaaabbccddXeeeffccggeXhhiijjXkffaaaacchhbbaaggaaddaallXaeemmccffjjggcciihhleccmmffddXknnggaakkggffmmllllXgccgg
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 112,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1011010111 01010010101 1101011001 1111010101 1011001101 1101111001 11110110010 01010101010 101010100011 0101110101 1101100111 0111010101 1101010010 0101110111 1101000101 1111110001 1101011101 0111010101 1100101111001 1111010101 11011110111 1111110001 1101011101 11010101010 0101110101 1101010011 1001010101 1101100101 1001011011 1101010101 1111111110 1111110101 11111100101 1111011101 11110111001 0101010111 1111110101 11010101001 11001011101 1111111101 1111111111 1101011101 11010101010 011101000110 0111010101 0111111101 1101010101 0111100101 1101100101 0101111111 01001010101 1101010101 11100000111 1101010101 1101010101 1111110111 01011001100 0011010001 1111100101 0101010011 01001010101 1101010101 11001110101 1101010101 1001000101 1101110011 11010010101 1111010101 0101110111 01111111001 10011100101 01001010101 11100010001001 0101010101 1011010111 1101010101 01011011101 0101010111 1101111001 1111110101 1111010101 1111010101 1101010101 1101011101 1011111101 0111111111 01011111010 1111111101 0101010111 1011111101 1011101111 0101001101 0101001101 0111110101 1101011001 1111100111 1011010101 1111110101 1111111101 0101111101 1101010111 0100101111 011111101 0101001101 11110101001 1101011111 1001000110 0111010101 0111110101 1011011101 01001010111 01110011111
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 5009
  • Average number of words per stanza: 901
  • Amount of lines: 112
  • 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; of, to, that, in, their are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words that, to, since are repeated.

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