This is an analysis of the poem John Underhill that begins with:
A score of years had come and gone
Since the Pilgrims landed on Plymouth stone,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbaa ccddcc eeaaaa ffeegg eehhgg eeiidd jjbbaa aaeegX ggcckk eelldX gXggaa ggggaa Xibbaa ddmmaa jjjjgg ddiiaa ggkkgg jjccbb eedddX kkaaaa aakkbb bbggee eXhhaa jjbbggXmmggdd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,13,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 01001111 1010101101 110101101 0100111101 1110101101 11101001 010100101 1111101001 110101001 1010010100 1110110001 1101001001 1100111101 010010101 011110111 100100011 0101001110 101111010 110111101 010101101 1111100101 1010110101 1011100101 110100101 110100111 011100111 110010111 0101001101 11100101101 1011101101 101101101 00010111 00110100101 1010101101 10100101111 011000101 1110010111 1011100101 110111111 0010101100 10111110101 10101111111 111011111 010010111 0101010011 101010101 11101100101 111101100 110100111 010010111 110010101 010011101 110010101 1111111111 1111001111 111101111 1110011111 110100100 1010101101 110101101 100101001 11011110110 110101101 1000101011 1010101101 0010101001 1110110111 010110110 110010101 0010011101 110100101 010100101 10100100011 1111001001 110100101 110101101 011110101 11100100101 010101101 11010010001 111100101 0100101001 010010101 0100100101 1010010101 010110101 101010111 1110101011 11111001 110100111 111011101 1100100100 1110111011 110010101 110101111 1101001001 111011001 111100111 110110111 1110110101 100111111 010101111 1111100111 1100111111 01101100111 111001001 11001001011 0100111111 111111111 011111111 111101110 0101101101 111110101 11111101 111100111 110010111 10100101 1000101101 1010010111 1010101001 10110101 011110110 1010100111 011111101 1100100111 0101110101 101111111 101100101 110010111 110011101 0110110101 110100101 000100111 0100100100 11001001001 110000101 110010101 110111001 1010001001 010010101 1010101100 011000101 010010101 110100101 1010101101 11100110101 111010111 0100100111 101100111 100101101
- Amount of stanzas: 25
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 238
- Average number of words per stanza: 46
- Amount of lines: 150
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
- 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; of, and, i, ', his, in, me, on are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, and, what are repeated.
The author used the same words he, 'i, and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word man at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of John Underhill;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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