This is an analysis of the poem A Poem Sacred To The Memory Of Sir Isaac Newton that begins with:

Shall the great soul of Newton quit this earth,
To mingle with his stars; and every muse,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcdcefdgeh cibfd bjkchdkhbkbhh ldbkcbmkg knopbkhcqcrrcbfhbk cecqfbssknk hibckrkd kprrgr ibkhlbkchdfhfrbkrbkhkckhbghccrngbacfg ejbbeo hrhkkkr ggbcd krobfni gmbkXkapcpbchtbjcu qfmuibaie fdibkXfXcbtdkebrbfX gcklXccghfkkbaacemch
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 11,5,13,9,18,11,8,6,37,6,7,5,7,18,9,19,20,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1011010101 01000111001 0100010101 01010001001 11111010101 0111001001 1001010101 1111011101 1101010101 01001010101 01010010001 1111011111 1110111101 1001010101 1101010100 1101010101 1111011101 11001110101 0101111111 10101011101 0101011111 1001010101 1101111111 0101010101 0101110001 1100010101 1001010010 1101110101 1101011101 10010011111 1101001111 1001010101 01110100101 0101000111 1100100111 0100111001 1101111101 01001010001 11010011101 11011101010 0101010101 0101010001 0101010101 01100101001 1101110101 11010100101 1011000101 11010011001 0011010101 01001010101 01000100111 1101010101 1001010101 1011010101 0110010001 0101010101 1101110101 10110011001 1010100101 1101110001 1101000101 1111000101 0101011001 1001010101 01010010101 11100111010 1101010001 1100100001 1101001101 0011010101 01110010011 11010111010 01011110001 0101100101 0101010101 1101010101 0101011001 11100011101 1001001101 0101010101 110010010101 01011010011 01010011001 0111010001 0101011101 0111010101 11000010101 0111110101 0011100101 1101110101 1101011101 0101010101 1011010100 1101010101 01010111001 11011100101 1101010101 1001010101 10010010101 01010010001 00111000101 0101010101 1101010101 1101010111 1011010101 1011110101 01001110101 0101010111 0101010101 1011001001 1001010001 11010101010 1101100101 11011010101 0101010101 10010010101 1101011001 0101010101 0101010111 1001011011 11001101001 1101011101 1100110101 1111000101 01001011101 0110000101 1011000101 1101100101 1001010101 0111010001 010010010101 1111010101 01010011101 00110011111 0111010101 1101110101 1101100101 0100010111 1101011001 0101010001 0101010111 10010001110 1101110001 1111111101 1110010101 1100010001 01100010001 1101011111 1101010100 1101010101 10010101001 1101010001 1101010101 1101110101 1101010101 0101010101 01001101011 1101011101 010010100111 0101010111 1101010101 1111010101 1111001101 1101010101 0101010100 0101011101 01010101010 0101010101 0101011101 1111010101 1110110101 1011110101 11011110101 1101110011001 11010010001 01010100100 11010110001 0101010100 1001101111 1101010001 0101011111 0111010001 1101011101 1101110101 110011101 1101010001 1111011101 11111011001 1111000110 1101100101 1001101101 1101010011 1101010101 1101000101 0101010101 1101010111 1101001101 0101110101 11010101001 0101000101 10101010101 1001010101 0101010101 1101111111 1100111111 0101110111 1010000101 1110111101 1001110001
  • Amount of stanzas: 17
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 521
  • Average number of words per stanza: 89
  • Amount of lines: 209
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • 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; and, of, his, ever, how, her, thy are repeated.

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

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