This is an analysis of the poem Lines On Seeing A Lock Of Milton's Hair that begins with:

Chief of organic Numbers!
Old Scholar of the Spheres! ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaXabbXccd XaXaXXeffgghihidjjjdX kbkbeiiell
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,21,10,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1001010 110001 1101010 110111 1101110 1101010 101 1011010101 1100110101 1100 1100110 110011 1101000 100111 1101010 1111100 111 0011011111 1110110101 1101001101 1001111101 11001010 110011 0111010 101101 101100 0110111011 1101010101 1101011111 010100 1101011000 11001100101 11111101010 0111110111 101010100110 010111 1001 1111011111 101101 11010100111 1011100001
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 441
  • Average number of words per stanza: 79
  • Amount of lines: 41
  • Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; by, and, of are repeated.

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