This is an analysis of the poem Upon The Circumcision that begins with:
Ye flaming Powers, and wingèd Warriors bright,
That erst with music, and triumphant song, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbaccXXXdeedafXfaXghhgabba
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 28,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010111001 1101010101 1111010101 1101110101 10110001001 1110110101 11001010111 1011111 1101110 11011010010 1001110111 011111 1101 010001 1101011111 1101110101 1111011000 0101111101 11001011111 10010100100 11110011101 1000101 101101 0101011111 11010010101 011111 1111 011101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1070
- Average number of words per stanza: 186
- Amount of lines: 28
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
- 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; more is repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase just connects the lines.
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