This is an analysis of the poem To His Sacred Majesty. A Panegyric On His Coronation that begins with:

In that wild deluge where the world was drown'd,
When life and sin one common tomb had found,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbaaaaccddeeffaaggcchh ddiijjccddkkhheeflccaahheeeeffaaggaaaahhcceeggllmmddaa aaffnnaaddffaajjeeXfffccffffaallaaiillhhddllaaccffaaffddll
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 24,54,58,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 0111010111 1111110111 0111000101 01001010101 1111001111 01010111001 1011011101 1111001101 1101011101 1101010101 11111100101 1111100111 1111110101 1101110101 110111001001 1101011101 1101110101 1101101101 1001010111 1101011101 1111010111 1101111101 11001010101 1111011111 1111010101 0101110101 1111010001 1101010101 110111001001 11010101101 0101011101 1101011001 1111100101 0111100101 1101010001 11001010011 1101011001 0111011101 0111110101 1101010011 1101011101 1001011101 11001110001 0101011101 1001010111 1101111101 1100011101 0101010111 01010110001 1011011101 1111110111 1111010011 1001010111 0101010101 0101010111 1111011101 1111110101 0101000101 1101011011 1101100111 1011010101 1101010101 1011010111 1101010101 1111010111 1010110111 1110110101 1111000101 1001011101 011111010 1111011101 1101011100 1101010111 1000110101 0101010111 1111111011 0101100100 11010001001 11010101001 1111010101 0101111111 1101101001 11111011101 1101010101 11011010001 1101010001 01110100101 1111010001 1001011101 01010110111 1101110101 1101010101 110010100001 11001010101 1111010101 010010010101 0111111110 1101010101 1001010001 11010111001 1001010101 0101000101 0101111101 0101110101 1111111101 1100111101 0101010111 11110101101 1011110101 11011011101 01111010101 10110100101 1001010101 11011010111 1001011101 1111111101 0111010101 1001010101 0111110111 0101111101 0111011101 1101001101 1101001101 0111000111 0001011011 1100110101 1101111111 0101011111 10110111001 1101110001 0101001101 1111010101 1011110101 0101110111 1101111101 0111110100
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 2156
  • Average number of words per stanza: 361
  • Amount of lines: 136
  • Average number of symbols per line: 47 (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; your, of, from, in, their are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words till, from, her are repeated.

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