This is an analysis of the poem Hymn To The Penates that begins with:

Yet one Song more! one high and solemn strain
Ere PAEAN! on thy temple's ruined wall... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcbdeeccaa fcghcijkd lmfccljdln lakdcgocdppjejjjkelejogohaijeccj cgaccdjfXfgaajffjjpg ffjigdchXbcgqcjmdccXepfcgXngbcccfijd gaaafecnkjXggXe accegXimjfenjjeggceidecXb dbcegffjkXgjdgapcm amcljcgblccjcgjkigfcgaca jdnfjagokXnamb gaXkmfkofamqjgcjdcXnafgegkalga
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 11,9,10,32,20,36,15,25,18,24,14,34,28,24,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1111111101 1101110101 1101011101 101101011 1101010111 1001110111 0101101101 110010100100 0110010100 1111101101 1101110111 11000101001 010010100010 1011011011 0111101101 1111011111 010011101010 0101110111 0101010111 0111011101 1111111111 1001001101 1001010101 11010111010 11001101010 11010010111 1010001101 1101001001 0110010111 0101000111 11110101001 0101000011 010100100101 10001011111 0110010101 1101011111 0101011111 0101011100 101110100101 00110010011 0101010111 1001010011 0101111101 1101001111 10110111011 0101011011 1111010101 110100100111 1101110111 0011010101 0100110011 1111010101 0101111101 10110100101 0101110101 1101100111 11010111010 01010111001 01010010101 0101010101 1101110101 11010101001 1101011001 1100011101 01010111001 001110110111 1101011101 01100011101 1011010111 10011010101 0101111100 1111110111 1101011001 101101001110 0101011011 0100011111 11110101101 1101010111 11001110101 1101010111 11010100101 0111010001 11010101010 1101010011 0101001011 11111101010 1101011101 11110100101 0111000101 1101010101 11110010111 01001010111 1001010111 111100011001 1101001101 1101110100 01010111001 11111100111 1101110101 0111100101 0101001111 01110101100 1001001101 1100011111 11010100011 1111011101 1101011101 1111010110 1111010101 0101110101 1101110111 0101001111 0111110101 11000011110 1000011001 1101000010010 1101011101 0101111101 1101011100 1011101101 10011101001 01001110111 10001010101 1101010001 1111110101 0111111101 1110010101 0111011011 01000111100 1101010101 1101011101 0111110101 110110001 11110100101 1011111111 1111011101 1100011101 1111010100 11010111010 110101000010 0011010011 01110101001 1001110111 1101011100 1111000101 1100010111 0101010101 1101100101 1111010101 1101010101 1101010101 01001011100 01010100010 01000100111 0101011101 1110001111 1111111101 0011 100111 111100101011 1001011101 010100110011 01010000101 1110010001 110111001001 1101010101 1111111001 1101010010 1111110111 1111101101 1101111001 11001100101 1101000101 11110010101 0101000101 0101 1101010 1001011101 110010010101 1001010101 01010111111 0101110001 1111111101 010010001011 11010010101 1110010111 01010011100 11010000101 0101010101 010011010101 01011101001 01110101001 11110101010 1001100100 1101010101 10000101001 01011001101 0101101111 01011101010 1101010 1111 1011011111 10011100001 1011010111 11110100101 1011111101 11010011001 1111011111 0101010011 1111011111 0101010001 1101110101 011110111 0100011111 1101011111 0101011101 01011000100 1001110101 1111001011 11010010001 11001010001 01010100101 1100011101 0111010101 1001011101 0101011011 1001010111 0101010101 0101011101 11001010101 10010111001 11011010101 010111010100 10110101001 01110010111 1101110111 0101011011 1001110111 01010011001 100010001001 1011001111 0101010101 0110011101 1101011111 1110010101 01001011101 1111010111 1001 101101 1000111111 1100011011 01110011111 0101110101 01110100101 1111111111 0111001101 111100100001 0111110111 0101111111 11101111101 1001001101 0001010101 1011010101 0101010111 11110101001 1101001100 1101111101 1001110100 10110101110 1110110101 10000111011 01010011001 0101000101 1101011110 1001010110 11110 11100 1101010011 11111101011 1101110101 011101101 0101000101 0101110101 1011110001 1101010111 110111100100 1101011111 1001010101 1101111100 1101000101 0101010100 0111111001 1111010101 0101010101 11100010111 0110010101 1111010010 0101101101 1011010011
  • Amount of stanzas: 15
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 844
  • Average number of words per stanza: 151
  • Amount of lines: 299
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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; and, of, your, i, his, nor, them, its are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words to, and, no are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines them is repeated).

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