This is an analysis of the poem Epithalamion Made At Lincoln's Inn that begins with:
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HAIL sun-beams in the east are spread ; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a bbcddXaeeafFaghiihbjjXfF iikccXlXXlfF bbaffaXeXkff ddkXikjbbjfF iXikkikddkfF aakccXgjjafF ddXagedggdfF
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,24,12,12,12,12,12,12,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1 11100111 1111110101 1111010001 0101011101 1001010111 1111011110 1111111101 11111011010 1011010 1101110111 1101110111 011101010101 10010110 1101110100 1111011101 1001011101 1011010101 1111010111 1000101001 1111110010110 1011110 1111011111 1111110101 011101010101 1110010 1011001110 110100100101 1100111111 1011011011 010111110000 1101100101 1011110101010 0101010 0111111101 1111101111 011101010101 1110111001 1110110101 1100011110 111111011 1101110111 1101110101 1101111100 11001101110 1111100 1111011101 10111100111 011101010101 1011101 1101111111 1011111011 1010110100 1011110001 1101101111 1101011111 1111111101 010001 1101010101 11111101011 011101010101 010010101 11111100110 0100110111 010110111 0111010111 1110010101 1111011111 11011111101 101101 1101011101 1101111101 011101010101 11010101 1011011101 0101011101 1011111011 00101111101 11011110100 0101000100 01100101010 1111110 0011111111 1101110111 011101010101 101010110 1011010101 1101011101 1101110111 1101011100 01110101000 1111011111 010010111110 0101110 0111111101 1011111111 011101010101
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 530
- Average number of words per stanza: 94
- Amount of lines: 97
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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; you, as, and, their, be, but are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words ye, long, all, other are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word name at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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