This is an analysis of the poem Goliath Of Gath that begins with:
SAMUEL, Chap. xvii.
YE martial pow'rs, and all ye tuneful nine,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X aabbccddeeeeffggeehhbbbbeeeeaaffaaeeggbXeegggggggeehhddggiiXXaadXffjjeXeXiXddffbXddXebbaabXiibbXXddkkeeiifXXeeeeXkkaaXXXdeebbggeefflllaXgggeehXffeebbffdXeeddllhhiieXegXhhffaaccggaaggeeeeggegXeeeeeeeffggbbdXXXcXeXeeaXffbXXeaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,224,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1011 1101111101 0111111101 0101110111 01010010101 1101011111 0101000101 10101011101 0101010101 1101010001 1101110101 0111010101 1101000101 0101010101 10101010101 1001001011 10010101001 00101010101 0101010001 0111010101 0101010101 0101010111 0101010101 0101010101 10011101001 0111011101 1001110101 1101110101 1101100101 1101010101 1101010101 10101100101 10111000101 10101011101 10111011101 10111010101 10001000101 10101011101 101010001001 10001111101 100010101010 1101110101 1101010101 1101010101 1111010100 1101110101 1110000101 1101110101 0101010001 0101010101 10110101011 11010010101 1101010111 1111000101 1101000101 1101010001 1111010101 0101010101 10011100101 1001000101 10010010111 10011110110 1001110101 10001010111 10111010101 101010101010 11010110101 10101111101 10001010101 101010000101 1101000101 101010001010 11011010101 0101010110 10001111001 101110101010 101110001 0101010101 11101010111 10111110101 10101010011 101010001100 101010101 0101010101 1001010110 10111110101 0101010111 1011000101 0101110101 10010111101 10101100101 101110111010 11011010101 10101001101 10101100101 10101010101 10011110101 101110100010 11011010101 10111010101 10101010101 10011010111 1010111111001 1101010101 10101010111 10101011101 1111101101 101010001110 1101010110 101011100111 101010111011 1101010101 0101011101 1101001110 1101100101 1011111101 1101001001 01001011110 1001111110 10101011110 10001010110 10101001111 10100010001 10111011101 10111011101 10101110101 10011010101 10011010101 10111000101 10101011101 1101110101 10111010101 10001100101 10111010001 10001001111 1001110101 1011111010100 101111100101 1111010001 1101000101 10011010101 10101011101 1101011101 100110100100 0101110101 10110000101 1101010101 0101010101 0101100101 0101010101 11011010101 10111010101 1111110101 101110111100 10010110111 10101001101 10001110111 101110001001 10101010101 10001111101 1111011101 10110110101 10101010011 10101110101 10101011101 10111111100 1 1100010101 100111011010 1101010111 0101000101 1101001111 1111000101 1101111101 110101110001 1101010101 01001010101 0011010101 11001011101 0101110101 1101110001 101110101 1101001001 0111000101 11010100101 101110101 10010100101 0101010101 0111010101 110110100101 10111011100 100 1111101011 11010100101 1101011101 11110111001 0101010011 1101011101 110101001 11110101101 1111110101 11010111101 110010101 0101100111 0101010101 0111110001 1101000101 101000101011 1101000110 10111111111 101010100110 100110100101 1001101010010 0101010101 101010001 01011001101 10111011101100 1101110101 10101000101 10011110001 100110111010 101010100111 0101010101 10011110101 101111101100
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 5240
- Average number of words per stanza: 873
- Amount of lines: 225
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (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; and, his, in, who, to, on, thy, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, a, and, that, before, small are repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase i connects the lines.
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