This is an analysis of the poem Ode To Peace that begins with:

I. 1.
Peace, heaven-descended maid! whose powerful voice... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: Xabcbddefbdbd Xgcgchhccicic Xccddhhiicaff Xfjfjkkccblbl Xbcbchhmmcccc Xcccchhcccckk Xljljnncclblb Xkkkklloonana XccccaahhiXii Xhahchcbbeeljlj XilXailcchhbcbc Xmmbbccjjffbb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 13,13,13,13,13,13,13,13,13,15,15,13,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11 110010111001 01010101 1101010001 1100010101 0101001 1111010101 110111010 10111100101 10110000101 110010011101 1111110101 010111010101 11 1101111001 11010100 0101001001 0111010101 100111 1001110001 11010101 01010010101 1011010111 11010001001 0101010101 110111010101 11 0101001 010001 01010101 110010111 1001000101 1101001001 1011010101 111101001 110101 0101010101 10010010111 010101010101 11 0101010001 11111101 01001010101 10001000101 110101 11110100101 101100101 01011010101 01010101101 0101001010101 01110100101 111101010111 11 01010110111 01011101 01010000101 01010100101 100101 01010100001 010111101 0101010101 1100010101 1101010001 0101010101 1001011100101 11 110101 1000101 01010101 10010101 0101110101 11011001 0101001101 11000101 010101 1000010101 0101000101 100101100101 11 0101110111 11010101 11010101011 110010100101 110101 11110101001 1101010010 010111010010 1101010101 110010100101 0101011101 1111011101001 11 1101000101 11010101 0101010101 1111000101 110101 1101011101 11010101 1101110101 11011100101 0111110001 11011100101 111100011101 11 110101 011101 11011101 11000101 1101010101 11011101 1011010101 01011101 010101 0101000101 1101110101 010111110011 11 0101110 1 01 11010101 1100010101 10110011001 010111 1001010101 110100010 11010001010 1001010101 110101010001 1111010101 101101110101 11 010011101001 11010011 010 1 110111 11010010101 0101001 10101010101 11010101 1101110101 1111110101 110010011001 1011000101 111101010101 11 110111 1101001 01010111 01010101 11011101001 01010101 1101110101 0100001001 1010101 10010010001 1111100101 110101110001
  • Amount of stanzas: 12
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 500
  • Average number of words per stanza: 84
  • Amount of lines: 160
  • Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, her, of, where, late are repeated.

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

    The author used the same words i, ii, iii, iv at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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