This is an analysis of the poem To The Lord Generall Cromwell May 1652 that begins with:
On The Proposalls Of Certaine Ministers At The Committee For
Propagation Of The Gospell... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XX aaaaaaXaXbbXcc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 10100010100100101 10100010 1011011101 10110011001 1011110101 01111100111 110101101 1111010101 1101010110 1101101101 11010111100 0101110100 1110111110 100111010010 1101110001 01001110011
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 380
- Average number of words per stanza: 60
- Amount of lines: 17
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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