This is an analysis of the poem To Sir Godfrey Kneller, Principal Painter To His Majesty that begins with:
Once I beheld the fairest of her kind,
And still the sweet idea charms my mind: ... full text
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeefffeeddgghhffiXccjjddkkkeellmmeeaallkkfneejjeeooccjjeejjeXcceeeekkeeeeeeaaiiaappkkaaaffjjaaXecchhdddkkaajjlllddhhffeeaaaaffjjjXffnllddqqjjeekkeXmmjjXeaaXeff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 166,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1110010001 1101010111 1111110111 1001110101 1101111101 1101010001 1111010111 11010100010 1111110001 1111110101 1111010111 0101010101 1111111101 1111010001 1111110101 0101010111 1001110101 1111010101 1111110001 1011010101 0101110001 1000111101 0101010101 1101110101 11010101010 1101110101 0001010111 0101000101 0111110101 0101110101 1110010100 1101110101 0101011111 1101010101 1101010101 1111010101 1101011010 1101010101 1010111101 1111001101 1101111101 1111011001 1101100101 1101100001 1111110101 1011100001 1111001101 0101010001 1101001101 11010100100 1001010101 0111011101 1101110101 1101010001 10010000101 0101010101 1101010101 01010010001 1101011111 1111110111 1101010101 1101110101 1011010101 1101011101 1101111101 10100110101 1001011101 1101010101 1101010111 1101110101 01001001101 1101110111 1111110111 0111010111 01001100101 1001100101 0101111111 1111010111 1111010101 1001110101 10110000111 1111111101 0111010101 1101010011 1111010001 1101110101 1110111101 1101110101 1111011101 1101010101 1101011101 1101011101 1001110101 11010010101 1101010101 11110011111 1111100101 1010101001 1101110111 0101110101 0101110011 10010100100 1100110100 1101010101 0101001101 11111101001 1111000101 1111010101 1111011011 1101010110 11010101001 0101001101 0101010001 11010101001 0111110111 1111011101 1101010001 01111001101 11101010111 1101010101 1110010001 11011100111 1101110101 11010100101 0111011101 1111010001 01001001101 1101111101 010010101011 11010101010 011000101010 0111111101 1101000111 1101010111 1011011101 0101011101 110111010 0001011001 1101010110 1001010100 1111010111 1101011011 1111010101 1101110101 1101001101 01010011101 01011111011 0111010101 1101011101 0101010101 1111110101 1100010111 0101011101 010010010010 1011110101 1111010101 1101001101 1100010101 1100110110 1100011101 1110010101 10110001001 1011011001 11001110111 0101011101 1111011101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 7309
- Average number of words per stanza: 1262
- Amount of lines: 166
- 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; her, thy, and, i, his, they, in, to, at are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words with, for are repeated.
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