This is an analysis of the poem Upon The Kings Happy Return From Scotland that begins with:
So breaks the day when the returning Sun
Hath newly through his Winter Tropick run, ... full text
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeecXffXdgghhiiXjkkjjffiiddllffmmccaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 44,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1101100101 1101010101 1111000111 0010010001 0111111111 1101000111 0111011101 1010010101 1111010111 011100101 1101011111 11011100100 0101110101 0101010001 1101111101 1101011001 1011011111 110101110 10101100011 11000010111 1110010001 0101110110 10101101001 1101110001 1111011111 1011100101 1111110001 1101110101 1111111111 0111010001 1101110101 10111001001 1111010111 1111011101 1001010111 0101100101 110111101 1111010111 0011111111 1001000101 1111010101 1010010101 1101011011 0101011101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1966
- Average number of words per stanza: 352
- Amount of lines: 44
- 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; what, to, of, you are repeated.
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