This is an analysis of the poem Ode To Naples that begins with:

EPODE 1a.
I stood within the City disinterred;... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: X XXabbcacaadXdXeefggeff X bhffffbeibeibffbjieggXakkalkk X XfXffhahaXllMM X nnmXXmnmboM X XdiddbXbccggmm X ffXmkkmfmakm X fjXjlhfhffmmMm X fffppfffemm X bbbXblalaabXbbXXjkkXjj X ooekkeaXmafmokafmfddfbllbfll Xj
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,22,1,29,1,14,1,11,1,14,1,12,1,14,1,11,1,22,1,28,2,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 101 11010101000 11001011110 0101010111 01010011100 111101 010001010101 01001010101 1111100111 1111111101 01010101 010101110010 0111100110 01110110010 00111101100 11001010011 10010111 01010101011 1101101101 11010111 0101010001 111110101001 1111110011 101 110101 0100101 01101110101 110110 1001010 0101010100101 10011001101 10101010101 1101001 0111110101 01111100101 111101 111101 100101 01001010 00011 00110100 1001010101 01010101011 01100100101 10010010111 01101100 11010101010 011001 10101 101101001110 100100011011 100110100 1111110011 11 10110111010 10010101010 10010101100 010011111110 1111110 01000010101 1111111101 1100010101 1110010101 01010100 1111111100 1111110101 0111110101 1111 11 110101 100101 110100010001 1001000 1101100 100111010101 1110101 111111 101101010010 010101 1111 1001 1110010110 10111101010 0111111011 01010101010 011010 11100101111 01100100100 1011010001 1101011111 01110011 11111101001 1111010111 0111110101 110111 1001 010101 010101 110001011 10111 110100 111101 1101100000101 110101 11111 10011000101 110101 0111 1001 11110111010 0101110100 1100110001 0011010100 101101 1101010101 01110101001 1111010101 10010100101 011111 0101010101 0101010101 0111110101 11011111 1001 100101 010101 10010101101010 010101 110101 11011101111010 111101 0010010 1011111001 1111110001 11111111 101 1101100111 0101010101 0111000101 10110100100 011101 11010100001 1001000101 1001110101 00110111101 010101 01000111110 1101010100 11011011010 110100101010 00111000 100111110 10010110110 1011010001 111101 1101010100 11011111110 010011101110 101 110101 110111 1111110100101 11010010 1111010 110011110101 1001011101 010101001010 001101 1111010101 010111001010 101101 1111001 1111010 01111 010111 1011010101 11111101010 111100111010 01111100010 0100011001 110101000010 111101 111101 11010010010 1101001101 1101100110 0100110101 011110101101011110010010110010101111100010101011010110
  • Amount of stanzas: 21
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 340
  • Average number of words per stanza: 59
  • Amount of lines: 189
  • Average number of symbols per line: 37 (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; of, and, hail, bid, thy, from are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, i, to, from, o, and, bid are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines it is repeated).

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