This is an analysis of the poem The Convocation: A Poem that begins with:

When Vertue's Standard Ecclesiasticks bear,
Their sacred Robe the noblest Minds revere.... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccddee aaffff XbggXbffhhif iiXb bbaadd jjddcc ggbbkkccXgcc ffee ddeX ffccddgg ffffXgkk ddee llbb bbfXaa ggll ffffii fXii ffmm hhXf gghh gghh eeddll kkggff ddbbddddeee ffiifffXff eeff ifcc ffbbgg ddaa ccff Xfggll iillkk
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,6,12,4,6,6,12,4,4,8,8,4,4,6,4,6,4,4,4,4,4,6,6,11,10,4,4,6,4,4,6,6,4,6,8,4,6,4,4,6,8,4,4,6,8,4,8,4,4,4,6,4,6,6,2,6,8,8,6,2,1,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 1101010001 1101010101 1001011101 1111000101 1101111001 1111010101 11110110101 1011011101 1011000101 1111110101 1101010101 0111011101 1101011101 1111011101 1111010101 1111111101 0101010101 1111110001 1111010111 1101010101 1011010110 1101001101 0101011101 0101000101 1101110101 1111011101 1111110101 0101011101 0101110101 0101010101 0101111110 1100010101 0101111111 1011010011 0011011111 0101010101 1011111101 1011010101 1101011101 1101010111 0101111101 1101110101 1101011101 1101000101 11001010101 1101010101 1101011001 1101001101 1101010001 1001111001 1001001101 11110010011 11010111100 1101010101 0001001111 1101010101 1101000111 1011010101 0101110101 1110011101 111100101 1001010001 0101010110 1011000101 0101010001 0101010101 1101010101 1101000101 1101111101 0111010101 100110100101 1101011101 1110010101 0101000101 1111110101 1101010101 01110111100 1011100101 10010101001 1111011101 11011101011 0101010101 1111000111 1111110101 0101111101 110111101 1111010101 1101010101 0101010101 1001111101 1100100101 1101110101 1101110101 1111110001 11010100101 0101010101 1101010101 1111010101 0101010001 1011010111 1011110101 1011011101 0101010101 0101011011 111000101 11001101001 0101000101 1011010111 11010100101 1101010101 1001011101 1101000101 1101110001 10110100101 0101010110 0110110101 1001110101 1001110001 11001010101 1001010101 1011010101 1101000101 1001011101 0111100101 1101010111 0111011110 1111010101 0101010101 0101100101 10011110001 1101011101 1101011101 0111010101 1101100011 1101011001 0101110101 1101100101 0101111101 1001101101 1111110101 0101010101 1001110101 11011101001 1101010101 1101011101 1101010101 1111110101 1111010101 1111110101 0101010101 1001010111 0111000101 1101110001 0111010111 1111010110 1011010101 01010111101 01001010001 1101110111 01001010101 1101010101 1001010101 1111011101 1001010101 1101011101 1111010101 1101000101 1111010111 1111100101 10011001111 0101010101 1111110101 0101010101 1111110101 10101010101 1111010101 1001010101 0101011101 1101010101 1011011101 1101010101 1001111101 1001110001 1111011101 1101000101 1001010101 1001010101 0101010111 1101010101 0101110101 1001110111 1101110101 1101010111 1101111101 1100010101 11100010101 1101010101 10100101100 010100010001 1111010101 1010010101 1101011101 11010101100 0101011101 1101011101 1100110111 1100011101 1101010101 0111010101 1101101110 0100010101 1001010111 10010110001 0111011111 0111010101 1011011101 0110000101 1011010011 0111010111 1101100101 1101010101 0100100101 1101000101 1111011111 110101101001 0101011101 1101010011 1111010101 1101010111 1101010101 0101010101 01010110001 11010010101 0101100110 1111010101 1111010101 1001011001 0111001101 1101010010 1101010101 0101010101 1111010101 11011101001 100111001001 1111011111 0111011101 1101010101 0101010101 11110000101 1010110101 11111110101 10011011101 0101010001 01010110101 1101111101 1111010101 11001011101 0111010101 1011110101 1011110101 1101100101 10110101001 1011010101 1101011111 0111110101 0101100101 10010111001 1111011101 1101100101 1101010101 10011100101 1001110101 1101000101 1101000101 110101011 1001110101 0101000111 1111010101 0111000101 1111110101 1101011101 10101111101 1101010101 1001010101 0111110101 10011100101 1101111101 1001011101 0110101001 1101010101 0101010101 1110011101 0101010101 1101011101 01010100001 1011110101 1111110011 10010101101 01110110101 0011011101 1101111111 1011011111 1101110101 1111111011 1110111101 11011101101 111111101 1101010101 1101001001 11011110101 1101010111 1101000101 100000111 1001111101 1101010101 1111010111 1111110101 11100110101 11000100101 0111010101 1101010101 01011010101 1111011101 11011011111 1101010101 1111111111 1111110001 1111010001 0101010101 1101011101 0111110101 0101100101 1101010101 1101010101 0101010101 1011010101 11010101001 1101011101 1011110111 0101010111 1111101110 10
  • Amount of stanzas: 61
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 252
  • Average number of words per stanza: 43
  • Amount of lines: 401
  • Average number of symbols per line: 38 (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; as, she, their, thy, by, her, in, his, he, they, to are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words as, tho', some, the, why are repeated.

    The author used the same words the, next, but at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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