This is an analysis of the poem An Ode - In Commemoration Of The Founding, Of The Massachusetts Bay Colony In The Year 1623. that begins with:

They who maintained their rights,
Through storm and stress,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabcaabcdefgdefgceaaceaahicjhicj X bkbjkdjdjeheblbbbdd X hehedcecchdchchbmmeebheeeccacahXbX X bmbXimcicbmblhlnlannaaceecekikeeoo h bddbdcdbecdeplhpbbbbbbaabbnnaaaqXooaaocc h qqjdjddbbbjjbiiioocciieedddmmd X ebbecbacabpbpXXhXooXihhieeddbkkkbbbbbXjjgbbjgbdd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 32,1,19,1,34,1,34,1,40,1,30,1,56,1,44,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 110111 1111 110101 1111 1111001 1111 1111001 01011 111100 1101 0101010 0111 0101001 0111 010111 1111 110101 0101 101101 1101 010001 1011 100100 0111 111101 1101 110111 1111 101111 1001 110011 1011 1 110111 110101010 11100101 111001 1001010 011100010001 100101 0101 011111 1101010111 1000101 0101001 100100010001 0101100 1011011111 011101 1101000111 0111010101 010001010101 1 110101 111111 01110110101 1111 01101000111 01010011 111111 111101 0111010111 10010100101 0101011001 011111 100111 110111 01100010101 0101110111 0100010001 0100010100 110001 1111010111 1101001101 1100111 1001100111 11010011101 0101011101 11011100 0101111101 01010101 110101 0111100100 1001010101 11101111 1001001101 1111011000 1 1100011101 1101110111 101101 10110000 10010111 0111010101 0101010010110 1100110001 10010100010 1001010001 0101010111 01000101 0100 111111 1101000 110011010010 11011100 1000100 01010010 10010101010 0101001110 0101010111 11011101010 101111 11010101 01000101010 100101 10010101110 10010000 01111111010 01010010111 0111111101 101111 1001001 1 1101010111 1111010101 1111010111 101111 0101110111 1101010001 1101111101 01001011101 110101 010101 1001100 110001 110101 011100 1101010111 110101 1101000101 1100 110100 110100001001 010111 010101 1101010101 11010010001 0101010101 0100101101 01010101010 111101010010 111101 100101 0101 0111111111 1101 1111010101 110111 1100100101 101101 1001000101 10001010001 0111010101 1 11010110101 010111 1101100101 1101001 010010111 0100110101 010101 0101110011 010011 1111110101 0111011101 011111 01001000111 0101011100 011101 0101011101 110100 0111010101 010101111 1111010111 1101100011 1100011111 11001101 10011100101 11001 110111 010101111 0011011111 010111 010101 1 01110101 010101 0111 01001010101 0111010100 0111 0101110111 0111 0101010001 1101000101 010100101 110101 01110101 01101000 10110101010 110011 110010010010 010111 1101001 010011000 1101010111 11010111 011101 11010001 0111011 100101 110111 010101 010111 1101110111 010111 100111 0101000101 010101 010101 100101 010011001 1111110101 1001 0100010101 110011 11001000101 1001010101 0101 0101001 0100010111 0100011101 01111000111 010111 0101010100 1101010111 100101 1001010111 1110010101 0101000101 1101010111 1 010001 10011010101 110010010101 1101010101 0101010101 0101000101 110101 1101010101 010101 110111 1001 111101 1000101 001111 0101000101 111000 0101110101 11010100 110101 100111 1000110010001 101010101 01001010111 1001 1101010101 1001 110101 0101010101 010001 110101 1111110111 1111101101 110111 1011010101 1000101 1001 010101 1001001 1010001101 0101010111 01110101 0101011100 0111000101 01010100100
  • Amount of stanzas: 15
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 653
  • Average number of words per stanza: 115
  • Amount of lines: 296
  • Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
  • 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; and, her, in, with, to, of, something, as, tree are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words of, and, the, had, such, no, with are repeated.

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase eyes connects the lines.

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