This is an analysis of the poem Ode Xiv: To The Honourable Charles Townshend: From The Country that begins with:
I.
Say, Townshend, what can London boast... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbcbbc XddeXXe XccafXa Xbbcccc aggffff ahhibbi Xjjdiid XccckkX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1 11111101 01110101 010101 1010001001 11010001 110101 1 11110101 010101001 011101 11110110 01110101 110101 1 111111010 1001001010 110101 11110101 011011100 111101 1 11011101 110010101 111101 1110101 11110101 011101 1 10011101 110101001 1101010 11011001 11010101 11110010 1 111100101 01011101 111101 11010011 11011101 111101 1 111110001 01110101 010101 100101001 01101101 110011 1 0111101 01010101 010101 110010101 11011111 110110
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 202
- Average number of words per stanza: 36
- Amount of lines: 56
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; or is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words nor, or, and are repeated.
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