This is an analysis of the poem An Ode To Sir Clipsby Crew that begins with:

Here we securely live, and eat
The cream of meat;... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabccb cXXaad eefeef bbghhg iijbdjXeejaaj
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,13,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11010111 0101 1101010 11111101 11 1101 01111101 100 010101 11011101 01 0101 11110001 1111 010001 01011111 01 1101 111111010 01110 110101 01010101 01 0101 11111101 0111 111001 11110100 10 1101 11111011 0111 110101 11111101 11 0101
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 142
  • Average number of words per stanza: 27
  • Amount of lines: 36
  • Average number of symbols per line: 23 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.

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  • summary of An Ode To Sir Clipsby Crew;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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