This is an analysis of the poem Ode Xi: To The Country Gentlemen Of England that begins with:
I.
Whither is Europe's ancient spirit fled?... full text
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbcddeXXe XfXXgffbbbb Xhfhfbbahha Xfcfcddgggg aadaXeebbbb aigigffgbbg XdfdffXbjjb Xcjcjffgffg Xdgdgggebbe kXbXbllcbbc afafagggffg XbaXaeebccb Xglglkkhcch Xdcdcaadjjd Xgcgchhgbbg XfXfbbbbjXb Xgjgjffciic
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1 1001010101 1111010001 10010010111 1011010111 1011011101 1101000101 1001010101 11010101010 10110110010 1101001110001 1 11110101001 01010001010 0101100010010 1101010101 1111010111 11011111011 01010101101 1111011101 1101010111 110100010001 1 11010010101 1101110001 1101011101 0101111101 1101110101 0111000101 1111010101 0101011111 0101000101 010011010001 1 1111111011 1100110101 11001010011 11001110111 11000100101 1101010011 1101010101 1111001101 1101011101 100101111011 1 1111110101 11010111001 0111010111 0101001011 1101110001 11110111001 1110011101 1111000111 0111111101 0011010101001 1 1111011101 11110010101 1101010101 0101010101 0111011101 0100101001 11110011001 100110100101 01001110101 111101100101 1 1011010011 010010100111 1001010101 0111110101 1101010101 1100011101 1101001101 0101111101 0101011101 111101011101 1 11110101001 1010111101 1111011101 1101010101 1101010101 0101000101 11010101010 1101110101 0111011101 01100101010110 1 111101001 0101010101 011100001001 01001010101 1111010101 1011010001 0101001101 01001100101 01000110101 111001110011 1 1101000011 0101010111 1101011110 0101010001 1100011101 1101010011 1101010101 1111000101 0101011111 101101010101 1 1101010101 010100100001 1011010101 1111000101 0101000111 110011101001 11001010101 0111010101 1101110111 1100001110001 1 11110010101 0011110111 11010101100 11011010101 1101101001 0111110101 0101010111 111110101 11010010101 111101010011 1 1111110101 1101010101 1011011101 1101111101 0111001101 1111011101 1101011100 11010101001 1001010001 0111011101101 1 11110001001 1001011101 0111001001 01001110111 01010011001 0101011101 0101010111 1101011111 1011010111 110111010101 1 1101111101 1111001101 11011000001 11100110101 1001110101 0101010101 1101010001 0011110101 0101010101 110101110101 1 11010101001 1101011101 11110111001 1101010001 1011110101 1101110111 0101010101 11110110111 110101101010 111101111111 1 1001011101 1100101101 01111101001 11010010101 1101010101 11001110101 0101010011 1101010101 1111010101 110101110101
- Amount of stanzas: 17
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 457
- Average number of words per stanza: 79
- Amount of lines: 187
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (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; to, of, thy, your, their, by are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, ye, of, the, or, that, though, why, such are repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase love connects the lines.
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