This is an analysis of the poem To John Milton that begins with:
_'From his honoured friend, William Davenant'_
Poet of mighty power, I fain... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X abacdd adadbb ababdd ebebff fbfbbb bgbgbb hahagg fbfbaa ieiejj fafabb gigiff XXhfbc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10100110100 100101011 110111001 11100101 01010100 11010111 01111111 11011101 01010101 11010111 111101 01010101 11110101 01010101 01110101 11110101 110101 11110111 00010001 11010101 11010111 11011001 1010001 11110101 11010100 11011101 010101001 110011101 111101 01001111 11111101 10010101 01110101 110101101 110101 10110101 11010101 110111010 11010110 011101010 110111 11111101 11010101 11100101 01010111 01001101 01000101 11111101 111101011 01010101 110100101 11010001 010101 01110101 11100101 01010101 110101011 11010111 010101 11010101 11010101 01011101 01000101 11010101 11010101 01110111 11010101 11110101 11011100 110101010 110101 10111110 01010100
- Amount of stanzas: 13
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 192
- Average number of words per stanza: 34
- Amount of lines: 73
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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 is repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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