This is an analysis of the poem Astræa Redux. A Poem, On The Happy Restoration And Return Of His Sacred Majesty, Charles The Second that begins with:

Now with a general peace the world was blest,
While ours, a world divided from the rest, ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccbbXadaaaeeddddffaXffaaaaaaddfXggggaagggXdXeeffhhaaaXaaccddiiaaaaeeXaffggjjiiffbbffaaddklddddaaccffcceefXhhccbbmmXcffbbiiaaggggnnggookbbbeeiilXccecffppbbiiqqggffeeggXqeXddmmbbaXffqqccaaddddggddaaffaaaabbeeeeffXbddbbppddaacXcjjeeaaccqqaaiihhbbffffiicc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 323,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 10010010111 1101010001 0101011101 1101010001 1111110101 110101101 1101010101 1011010101 00101110101 1011011111 1001111101 00110010101 11011010011 1111010001 1101000101 11011100001 11010101001 1101000111 11110111001 1111110101 1011011101 1001010101 01001010111 0101010101 1101110000 1011110111 1111101110 1111011101 1111011101 1101110101 1111010101 01110110111 01010000101 1101010111 0101011101 1101010011 110110101 11110011001 1111010101 01110110000 01011101001 11000111001 0101110001 1111110001 1101111111 1101010100 1111011011 110011111000 11011100111 1101010111 1111110111 1001010001 1111010101 1101110100 10001010101 0101010101 0111110101 1101000101 11110110101 1011010100 11111001001 0101010101 1101110011 0111010101 1111111001 1011011101 1111110101 1111010001 1101000101 11000101001 1111110101 11010010111 11010101011 1111010101 1001100101 1111011101 1101010101 0101011101 1101010101 1001010101 1101101101 1101100101 1011010101 0101011101 01001011101 0110010101 0101011101 1101000101 0101010101 0101000101 1111010101 0101010101 1101010101 11010010100 11010100101 1101010101 0110000101 0101010101 1101010111 0101110101 11010001110 110111011 1101011101 0111110001 1101010111 1101010100 1101010011 0101010001 10111010101 1001010111 10110011101 11010110001 0111010101 1110111101 1011010101 1111110111 1101001101 1101010101 0101010101 010111011001 0101100101 0101110001 1111100111 11010010101 1111011101 1101101101 11010001001 01010011001 111111111 00101110101 1101011101 01010010101 11011101001 1101011101 1111011101 1101010101 10111010101 1111111101 0101110101 01100010101 1111010111 1111010101 110111001001 11001011100 1101010101 1111011101 0011111010010 1111010100 1101010101 1101110101 1111000101 111110001 011110101 0011010101 0111110101 1011101101 1101111101 101111101 0111100101 1101110001 1101010101 0101111101 1111011100 1001010011 1101010001 0101011001 11010010001 00101000101 1101010001 1011010101 1101010111 1101010101 1101010101 1101010111 1100110101 1101010101 1001110101 1111010011 1101110101 0111111101 1101010101 1101011100 1101111100 1101110001 11110111011 1011110111 1110011111 0101111001 1111111101 1101110101 0101010111 0111010001 1101010101 0101110111 01110100101 1101110001 1101011101 1101010101 1111110101 01110110101 1101001011 11010100101 1111111101 1001010101 1001111101 01001011001 1101011101 1111010101 1101111001 11110010111 11010110001 0101100101 1111110001 01010111001 10010111010 11010001001 01111101001 1101110101 111101000101 1001110111 0101000111 1101000101 1101010101 11010110101 01001011101 0101011101 1101011101 1101010100 1101110111 01001110101 11000101001 1101010101 0101010101 0101010101 0101011101 01110100101 1111011101 10111010011 0111010101 01010100101 1001110001 0111010101 0101111101 1101011101 1101110011 010100111 0101010001 1001010101 0001010001 1101111011 01001010100 0011010111 1110011001 0101100101 0101001101 1111010111 11001001101 1111011101 0101010111 1101010011 0111100101 11001010101 0101110111 0101010001 11001010001 11001010111 1101000101 1101010111 0101111101 11010011111 1100110111 1111110001 01010101001 1101110101 1111011101 1011111101 1011010101 1101011101 1101010101 1101010101 1111110101 0101111101 0111010011 1111010101 11010010101 01111100011 11010100101 1111111111 01010101001 01010101001 1011011101 1111010010 1011001101 1111011111 0101010001 11000101001 1110011101 01110011101 1101010101 1111100101 0101011001 1111011101 1100011111 11010100101 11011101000 1001011101 1101010101 1011010101 11010011101 11101100101 1101011111 1101010101 1101110001 0101011101 1101011101 0111010101 1111110101 11011101101 1101011101 1101111101 1101111001 10110111100 0101111111
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 14618
  • Average number of words per stanza: 2500
  • Amount of lines: 323
  • Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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, had, as, his, in, their, of, to, you, your, that, oh are repeated.

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

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