This is an analysis of the poem Upon The Priory Grove, His Usual Retirement that begins with:

Hail sacred shades! cool, leavy House!
Chaste treasurer of all my vows, ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abccddddXXeeffggbbaahhbbggggcciihhff
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 36,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11011101 11000111 11111101 11111101 11110101 11111101 01011101 010110101 01110111 01111100 010010111 01110111 10010111 11000111 10011101 01101101 0101010010 100111110 10100101 11100101 11010101 11010101 11110111 010000100 11111001 1110111 01010101 10110100 01010111 01101001 11111111 11111111 11011111 01110011 10111111 11111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1330
  • Average number of words per stanza: 241
  • Amount of lines: 36
  • Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; no, and are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word of is repeated.

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