This is an analysis of the poem To Sir Henry Wotton At His Going Ambassador To Venice that begins with:
AFTER those reverend papers, whose soul is
Our good and great king's loved hand and fear'd name ; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cbcb dede dfdf egeg hchc ihih cjXk kkjkXahah
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 10110010110 1011111111 1101101100 1111111101 0100010101 001001011 00111100110 1001010101 101110111 1101011101 0111001101 1101010111 1011010111 0110111111 1101111101 010011001101 0101010101 01110011011 1111110011 1111011111 0111100101 1001001101 1111101101 1111110100 11110011101 0111010111 011111010 0011110101 1111110111 0111000100 11011111100 0111010101 1101010111 1001010111 1111110100 1111011111 1111101111 1101101111 1011111101 0111101101
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 175
- Average number of words per stanza: 33
- Amount of lines: 40
- 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; and, his, to, honour, your, in are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word in is repeated.
The author used the same word after at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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