This is an analysis of the poem Paradise Lost: Book 04 that begins with:

O, for that warning voice, which he, who saw
The Apocalypse, heard cry in Heaven aloud, ... full text

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  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 141,871,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
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  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 22670
  • Average number of words per stanza: 3892
  • Amount of lines: 1012
  • Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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; his, and, worse, what, still, had, to, thou, i, farewell, hope, with, that, of, or, they, nor, you, whom, my, thee, her, their, all, on, both, here, ye, not, know, me, thy, but are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words so, of, for, more, and, know, his, or, to, the are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines hell, foe are repeated).

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