This is an analysis of the poem Britannia Rediviva: A Poem On The Birth Of The Prince that begins with:

Our vows are heard betimes, and heaven takes care
To grant, before we can conclude the prayer; ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccaacccdddaaaaddcceeffggddddddhhafiiccjjccggkkbbbbblggccggggddddggXkddiibbbccgghhggccddmmhhaaccgXddihnnggiikkiXccggccooiippbbhhggbbggaabbcchhhhqqjjggfafggddqqcccckkXdeeXXXaddddaaaccggccddmmiicXddiiiimmccccggddqqccddddiiddddgXddccbbkkkccddnnggddddddaad
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 361,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 111110011011 0101110101 0101010101 1111011101 1101101101 0100010111 11010110101 0101000101 0101010101 1101000101 01001011101 01001110101 0101010101 1101010001 0101010101 1010010001 01110100101 0101010101 1101010101 01000100101 1101010101 1101010001 1101001001 11001010011 10010100010 11010001110 0110110111 0110010011 1111010001 0111010101 1101011101 1100110101 01010101001 11001011101 1101110100 11010110101 1101010101 01111101010 010010010011 11011101001 11001111001 11111101011 0101001101 1101110101 1101011101 0101010101 1101010011 1110101001 1101010011 1101110001 11011111001 110101101 01001101001 1001011111 1110010101 0101010100 110011111 1101010101 0101010001 1101011001 1110011011 1010010001 1111010001 0101101101 0101110101 1111110111 1111001111 1100010001 1000110111 0110010101 11011100100 1101011101 11010011101 011101101 1001110001 01010011101 11111011001 1101010101 110101010101 0101110101 11010010101 0111111001 1101011111 0101001001 0101010101 1001000111 1111010101 1111010101 0101100101 1101011101 1111011101 10110100101 0111010011 11011100111 1111010001 1011011111 1111010101 1101111101 1101011101 0111010101 0011010111 1001010101 0101100111 1101010111 0101000101 1101110101 1011000101 00110011101 11001010001 1101000101 0101110101 0101010101 1111110101 1101001111 11010101100 1011011101 0111110101 10111100101 1111100101 1101011101 1011010101 11011101001 1001011101 1101011101 0111010001 0100011111 1101010101 11110101 1011010101 1001010101 1001010101 11011101001 110101101101 01010010111 1101110101 1110010001 0101100101 1111000101 0101011101 1111101101 1110000111 1111010001 1101011111 1101011101 1101111101 110101001001 11001111101 11001010011 0101110101 01010110001 0111110101 01011100101 1001110101 11010001010 10001010101 11110101010 1101010101 1111000101 1101000101 01011011101 1111011101 1011011101 01010010101 0101011101 01010111110 01010100010 1010110101 110101110101 010101011000 0101011101 01010001001 1101010101 0111010101 10110010110 10010001110 0111100101 1111010101 1010101101 10110100001 1111000101 10001110101 1101110001 010101010101 11010101010 11000101010 1001110101 11100101001 1001011101 1001100101 11010100101 001101110101 0111110101 01010100101 11001010101 1101010001 1100010101 1101010000 1101011001 1011011101 0101110001 1101010001 1101010111 0111110101 01110101001 1011000101 001000101111 1111011111 11001100111 1111010001 1001111101 1001010101 10010010101 1101100101 1101110101 0101010001 1101011101 1101110101 1011010101 1111110000 0001000101 1101011101 11010001001 10010101001 10010001010 10011101010 1011010101 1101110101 1111010101 010101111100 1011010111 010111111001 1101011101 1101010101 1101111101 0111011101 1101010001 1101011101 110101110101 11000111010 01110001110 1111011101 1111010001 11001110101 1011010101 1101111111 110001110111 1101010101 0111011101 1101000101 0101010101 01110111010 1101010101 0101010101 11110100101 1101010111 1111101101 1101010111 1001010001 1101010111 1001011001 1101010101 1011110101 0101010101 0101010001 1101110101 0101000101 11011100101 11001011001 0101101101 0101010101 1101010101 01001011111 0101010100 0101001101 1101010101 0101010101 1011010101 1101010101 1101010001 1111010010 0111010111 1100010001 1001110001 1110010101 1101100001 1101001111 1101010101 1101001111 1111010111 1111110101 1111010001 1111111111 1001011101 1111110101 1111010101 1100110101 1111011101 1101110101 10001110011 1101110101 1100110101 0100111101 1101001101 1101010101 01110011101 01010111001 1111010101 0101010101 1100110111 1100010101 1111100101 1100010001 1101010101 1001010001 1111010101 1011010101 1111010100 1101010111 110101111101 11010011010 110010100010 1111011111 1101010101 1111011111 11110011011 0111010011 1011010101 1001110001 0101011101 1111010101 11001011111 1111000101 0101110101 1100110101 0101111101 1011010101 0101011111 1100010111 11010100101 1001100101 11010110101 1101010101 1101010101 11010110011 01001110111 1101110101 0101010101 1111110111 1001110100 1101010100 1011010001 11010100101 11101011111 1011110110 11001011101 1101011110 0100111111 1101001101 1001110111 1111110101 1011010111
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 16035
  • Average number of words per stanza: 2780
  • Amount of lines: 361
  • 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; to, their, on, thy, that, how, his, and, prayers, son, we, of, some are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words to, and, enough, some are repeated.

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase down connects the lines.

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