This is an analysis of the poem By Occasion Of The Young Prince His Happy Birth that begins with:

At this glad Triumph, when most Poets use
Their quill, I did not bridle up my Muse ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXbcdXddddXcddeeXfgghhiiXXffccdddXbbjjddddffhhaXbbfXbbffddkkllXXXXmmbbbbfX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 74,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1011011101 1110110111 1111010111 11111101011 1101001111 1001110100 1011010101 11111011011 1011010101 0011101111 1111010101 1001110111 11100110111 1101010101 1101010111 1100011011 110101100 110011111 1101101010 1111111101 1100011010 1111010101 11011111001 1101011101 1101011111 0101001100 0101110111 1111110101 0101010101 1101010101 1111010011 11010100101 1101011101 1011010101 1111101101 000100010 0101011011 1111011101 11111100101 1111011100 1111111101 1101010101 0111011101 0001010101 100101111 1011011101 1111001100 11001110011 0101010101 1101100101 110101011 00110100 0101010011 0101011001 1111010111 1011010101 1111001001 1101011111 1101101101 0111010101 1111111011 1111101101 1111010111 11111100101 1111100101 110101010 10011101010 110110110010 1101011101 110101101 10010100101 110111101 11011110100 100111100
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 3210
  • Average number of words per stanza: 599
  • Amount of lines: 74
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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; in, and, our, his are repeated.

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

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