This is an analysis of the poem To Mr. Harley - Wounded By Guiscard that begins with:
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- Rhyme scheme: Xabcbc cXcX dede fgfg ecec caca hihi hjhj
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 011 1 0100011 0101010111 11001010111 0101010101 1011110101 1101100010 1001110001 1101010100 0101110001 10011010101 0101000111 01001110111 01001110111 1011000111 1011010101 0111011101 1010001101 10011111001 1111010101 1001011101 1101110101 0101010101 0100010101 1100110101 1111010101 1111010101 10110001001 1111010111 1111110111 111001101110 1101010101 01010111010
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 176
- Average number of words per stanza: 31
- Amount of lines: 34
- 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; his, thy, her are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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