This is an analysis of the poem Ode On A Nearer Prospect Of Summer Hill that begins with:
O Summer Hill! if thou wert mine,
I'd order in a pipe of wine, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaabXXbbXccdddaaXbbeeeXXXfgghh iidXdjjXkkggXXaXXhX XfllkkllljjkkjjX ccmmccbbXaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 30,19,16,11,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010111 11000101 11010101 011111010 111111010 110101110 100100110 1001111010 110101110 11111111 01010101 101101010 1011111010 110101110 01101101 11001101 11010100 110111010 110101010 101110101 10111101 01010101 11110010 11011001 0101001100 1101111111 100101110 110101010 0111011100 1101110100 10101001 110111001 100111010 111101000 1000101110 110010101 111101001 1111111 111111010 111101010 110101001 10110001 11010011 1111110100 1101010100 011111110 111110110 111111011 110101010 110011010 1011101011 110100010 111111010 110111010 011111110 11001101 11100101 01010101 01011111 01011111 110111010 111111010 00111101 11011101 10010100 11010101 11111101 11010101 10010101 11010101 01110101 110111110 1011010010 11011110 11110001 11110101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 703
- Average number of words per stanza: 124
- Amount of lines: 76
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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; and, to, art, thou, summer are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase in connects the lines.
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