This is an analysis of the poem The Burden Of Itys that begins with:
THIS English Thames is holier far than Rome,
Those harebells like a sudden flush of sea... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abacdd ececff gbgbcc hdhdii XjkjXc lmlmcc lflfXb gngXii gbgbjj mjmjff cbXbhb ififff XaoXff gXXXkk gfgfXh gXXidd jdjdff plhlXlg ohXbgg dgdggX nfnfgg qkqkXf babacc frfrcc jXjXff fcfcmm ibipii fhfhjj mcmcff dcdcXf cXcnXc igigss kdkdii lalaff bjbjgg hcbcgg jc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,7,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,13,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 01010100111 11001010101 1001011001 011111101 01111101001 11001101010111 11001010111 1101011010 11000110101 0101110001 0111101101 1001001111011111 01010100001 111100111 0101010101 0001010111 11011100101 00110111110101 0011100100 0101110101 1101011100 0111010001 1101110111 011101001010101 01110010101 1101011111 1101010101 1101110100 1101010100 11110100011111 0111010100 0011010011 1011010100 11001001101 10111001001 11110001010111 1101010101 0101110111 1101110111 1111011111 11010101100 11011101001011 10010100101 1111010101 1111010101 0101011101 0101010101 10111101010111 1101010101 1101110111 11010101001 1111010101 1101010001 10110111010111 11010111001 10110010101 1101010101 0101010101 01010010101 10111101010101 1101100001 01010010101 1100111000 111101011 1011010100 11011101010001 11010101001 0111011101 01001100101 1001111101 1011011101 010100101011101 1101110100 1111011100 1111110100 0111001110 1101010101 110010100110111 11011111001 11110110 0111011100 1101010100 1000010101 10010101111101 1011111101 1101011101 1101010101 1011010101 1101010100 100100110101100 1001111101 1001010100 110101110 0111010101 110011101 01010011101001 1001010101 0101110001 1111010111 0101110101 1101010001 101100110100101 1010101010 1001011101 01001011100 1100010101 101100010 1100111101000 1 0101010100 1110010100 110101010 0111110101 0101100100 01110001111101 0110011101 1011010101 0100010001 0100011001 1011010010 11011101000100 1011111101 1111010101 1111110101 1111010101 1101110100 01010101010111 0101010101 11011101001 1111110101 1111010111 110011101 1101010001101 0101100101 1101000101 11011100111 1001010101 1101010101 11010101111101 0110000101 1001010001 1111100001 0101011011 1101010001 10010101111101 1111111111 010101010 1101111111 01111010100 0101010011 010100111110111 0011110101 1001010011 1001010111 0101010101 0101011100 11011101010101 1101010100 1101010101 0111010101 1111010010 01011100110 010101010100100 11111100001 0101110100 1011011101 1101010100 1100110101 10010101111111 1111101111 1101011101 1011010101 0101110111 0101010111 10111101100101 1111110001 01010101001 11010010101 0101011101 1101010100 01010101110101 1111010101 110110100 01110100111 1001101001 11000011101 100101010100101 1101010001 1101010101 111011101 0111000101 1101010101 01011101011101 1011010101 1101011101 1011000101 1001110101 111110101 11101101010101 1111010101 1011010101 0101010101 1001110101 11001110101 10110101010101 1111010101 1001010101 1100010101 0101000101 1101011101 11000101011011 1101110100 1101000111 1100111001 0111110101 00011010001 11110101010101 1101000101 1101000101 1111011100 1101010100 1111011111 100101010101001 1101010111 01001010101 110111101 01010110001 1011110001 100111001011101 1111111100 0100010101 11101111110 1101011111 0111000101 10110111110111 1111110101 1001010011 11010100101 0101010101 01001010111 01010101011001 11111101 1111010011 0101010111 1111010101 1110011111 110000111101001 1101111101 0111010101 1101110101 1101111111 1101110100 100110001110111 110011111 111111100 1101011101 1101010100 1111110101 01010100110101 1110110001 100100101001 1101001101 0101111101 1111010111 10010101010101 0101010111 1001110101 1101101111 1111010111 010011111 11110101011101 0101010111 0101000101 00110010111 01000111 1101010001 01010111100101 0101011101 11010100001 01001010100 1101010001 11010101001 1001100110001 11000111001 0111001001001 1111010101 110011000100 1101111101 00110001101101 11111100111 1101011101 110101101 1101100100 11111001 01010101110101 0101010100 111010101 0111010100 1001110011 1011000100 110100111110100 1111110101 10110110100 1100111001 1011011100 1101001111 1101111110011 10110101001 1101010100 1101110111 1101010101 01111100101 11010111010101 0101010001 0101010111 01010101001 1011010101 01000100101 110101100101101 00110100111 10101010101 1011011011 1011011101 1101100101 101100111110101 0101010001 01110101001 1111010101 1101010101 01110101001 110001111100100 11111100111 1110001101 1111110101 1111000101 1101010001 100100110110100 10111111001 010111101 1001010101 1111110111 1011010111 11010100011101 11010101001 01010011101 100110101001 1011100101 1110011111 11010100011111
- Amount of stanzas: 58
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 288
- Average number of words per stanza: 49
- Amount of lines: 349
- Average number of symbols per line: 48 (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; to, and, sweet, his, thou, of, they, sing, her, for, o, thy, cease, lie, still, i are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, which, of, the, o, whose, she are repeated.
The author used the same words and, sing, a at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase here connects the lines.
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- summary of The Burden Of Itys;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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