This is an analysis of the poem To The Right Honourable William, Earl Of Dartmouth, His Majesty's Principal Secretary Of The State For North-America, that begins with:

HAIL, happy day, when, smiling like the morn,
Fair Freedom rose New-England to adorn:...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccddccddeeaaaddffddeeeeddbbgghhiijjaadd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 43,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 1101110101 1101110001 0101010101 10100001101 0101011101 1101110101 1011010101 0101110101 1101010101 1101110101 11010101010 1101110101 1001000101 0101010101 1101000101 01110100001 1101110101 1101000101 11100110101 1111110111 1001110101 1111010100 1101011101 1101110101 1101010101 1101010101 1101101101 101111111001 10010101010 1111111111 1011011001 1101111111 1111110001 1011101001 0101111101 1101010101 0111111101 1101010101 11010101001 1010011001 1100101101001 1111001101 1101011111
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1900
  • Average number of words per stanza: 328
  • Amount of lines: 43
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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; of, thy, to are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word what is repeated.

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