This is an analysis of the poem Ode that begins with:

To the Pious Memory of the Accomplished Young Lady, Mrs Anne Killigrew,
Excellent in the Two Sister-arts of Poesy and Painting.... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: Xa bcdbcedfdddddggddegefg hhhhggieieehehhh jjgggjkkjbbblblmm kXbdmmgngniiXXh gkgkgghhheeeccoco gccgkkkhXXhdhcX hcchhddeebbbbeeeddkkooee XXcceeeccddbbgghgghbbb ddbbc cllhlhgghcc bbbXeooddeecc hhXcppkkhhhhhaalll
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,22,16,17,15,17,15,24,22,5,11,13,18,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 001010000010110101100 100001101010110 1101010001 1001010001 11110101 01010110001 1001010101 10010011001 1101101101 1001011100 100100101 110101001 1101000101 1101010011 1101010101 1111011101 110010101 1101011101 010101 1111110101 111101010 0110010111 11010100 1100010 01100111 11000101 0111000110 1101010011 1111000101 1101110001 10110101 11110101 0011010101 11110101 111101110101 0111111111 1111010111 1111010101 1101011101 010111010010101 1101011111 111101111111 1101010010 1101010101 1101010001 11010111 11011101 11010001 110101111 11010101 11010001 10110101 1111011101 11110100 11110001 1101010001 100011111110001 11011111 1001101010 1101110101 01010110101 1100110101 1101011101 1101101101 01011001 1101100011 101010100001 11111011101 1011010111 01000101100 01010111000 011111010001 11111101 11001101 11010001 11110101 1101000101 1011111101 0101000101 11010101 100101010111 1001011111 1111010101 1100000101 1111010101 110101110101 1101000101 1101111101 1101000101 10010100001 1111111010 0101110100 1111010101 00111101 11010101 0101010101 0100100011 1100010110 110101110 101101010011 0101010101 1101011111 11001101 0101010100 110101101101 11010100 01010100011 01011000101 11010101010001 01010111 11011101 01011111 01000101 01011101 11010101 01010101 10100101 11010101 11010101 10110111 0101010101 1001010111 1111010101 1101010001 11011101011 0101110001 1101111101 110101010101 0111010101 1101010101 11101010101 0111010001 0111010101 0101010101 1111011101 1101101111 1001110111 01010101 01011111001 0101010011 101111010101 0101011011 0101110101 1100010101 11010100101 10010111 1011111101 11110110101 0110010101 1101011101 11111101 1101011101 1101011101 0101010101 1111001101 1101010010 0101010101 0111011101 1101010101 01110001 11011101 1101001101 0101010101 110101 10101010101 110011110111 1101110101 0101000101 111001010101 11011110 01110111 11111101 0111111111 1111011101 1101010101 1101101101 0101001101 0101010111 1111010101 1011010111 01010101 1001001000 0101110101 11011001 11111111 110010101 00110001 11010010011 1101110101 0101011101 11100111 1111000101 1100110101 1101001101 11110101011 1100010101 0111111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 13
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 629
  • Average number of words per stanza: 112
  • Amount of lines: 197
  • Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, thy, her, and, his, in, that, to, thou are repeated.

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

If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:

  • summary of Ode;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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