This is an analysis of the poem Tunbridge Wells that begins with:

At five this morn, when Phoebus raised his head
From Thetis' lap, I raised myself from bed,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabXb aacccaaddeeeefffggg hhhggaabbbiibbjj ggbbaaddgggggaaXikkXddddbbaaa ccaaggaaaallbXmd aaccbbnngggXbbjXmmXacclXeekk gggeehheeaagXooggbXoogXmddXiihhffgg ppccllaajjXkkaagX jjbbmXjjnn
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,19,16,29,16,28,35,17,10,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1101110101 0101111101 11011100010 01000110110 10110011110 1101010111 0101011101 110101011 1100010101 1011011111 0111011001 1101110011 11110111110 110101110010 0101110100111 1101010111 0111010001 1001011001 1101010101 0101000111 1001100101 1111011001 1011010001 1011110011 0100010101 1011011101 11001111101 1101111001 1011011101 110111101 110111100101 0111110101 0101010101 1111011111 11010100011 11110100110 1011010011 1001110101 101110101101 0001000101 0110010111 1011010001 010100101001 1100110101 01010100101 1011001011 0101001100 1111011100 11110001101 1101010011 0100010011 11010100010 11000101010 11110011101 10010111001 11110101100 11110101010 100110101010 11000101000 1101011000 1101010100 11011111110 00010111010 10110101010 1101011101 01010101011 1111111011 1101010001 0101000100 1101010101 0101010011 01011110111 1011010001 1011110011 1101111111 1001111101 11011111101 1011010101 1101110101 111100111 1011000101 11110101100 1011010100 0101010101 1011011100 1101101101 1011110101 0101110101 010111101 1001011001 11010000101 1110010010010 01110111110 11000101101 0101010111 1111110101 11010101010 0111010101 111101010101 10011011110 11110101110 11010011001 01001111101 11110110010 1111111101 1101011011 0101110111 11110001001 001111011000 0101110101 0111110111 11110001010 01010100110 10001010111 1011011111 1101011101 1101101100 0101011101 0101110001 1101100101 10101000101 1101110101 11000110101 1100011111 10011101010 101101010100 01011001111 1111110011 1101011111 0111110101 1001010111 010111011100 110110001010 1101111110 1110110101 01010101010 1101110101 0110011100 110111100 0111010100 0101001111 0111100001 1101111111 0101111101 1101000111 1101110111 01010101010 00010101010 11110110011 0111100101 1101110101 1111010101 1001110101 1001010101 0111111101 0111001101 111010111001 0111110011 1101010101 1101110101 011101110 10110110110 110001000010 10110001001 11010111000 1111110111 0101100100 0101010111 0101001101 1101110110 0101110100 1111011001 1101000111 111010111010 01011101010
  • Amount of stanzas: 9
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 852
  • Average number of words per stanza: 152
  • Amount of lines: 175
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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; and, as, of, can, with, to are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.

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