This is an analysis of the poem A New Year's Gift,Sent To Sir Simeon Steward that begins with:
No news of navies burnt at seas;
No noise of late spawn'd tittyries;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbbccddeeffgghhaaiXjaaabbiikkiillllaXhhajiimmjjaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 50,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010111 11011100 11011101 11100100 11011111 011110101 11010111 01110001 110111010 110101010 11010111 11110101 01010101 111101111 01111001 11110101 01110111 100111101 10111111 11111111 01100111 10111101 01010111 01010011 01111111 11010111 11111101 01011101 01010111 11110111 11011101 00110011 01010101 11010111 00110101 1110011 111101110 110111100 111111101 11000101 11011101 11010101 01111101 01111111 11010101 11011101 10011111 11110100 11010101 10011101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1834
- Average number of words per stanza: 347
- Amount of lines: 50
- 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; no, of, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words no, that, and are repeated.
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