This is an analysis of the poem The Olive, An Heroick Ode: Preface. that begins with:
The Reader will easily perceive, that the following Ode is formed upon the same Model with that beautiful one of the late Mr. PRIOR to her Majesty... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a X aXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,1,4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01001000110100101010110011001001101000100110011010000011011011001010110111101001001010110110101101101001011010110101001100010100100110101110100101010010101111010011000001000010001 00110001110010101110101101101111101000111011110111100001101001010111100001010010110011001010011111110101111010110100101000110111110011110001000101011010011010111101110011001010 10110010010101 110111010001011 10010010010100 10110
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 487
- Average number of words per stanza: 89
- Amount of lines: 6
- Average number of symbols per line: 243 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 44
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, of, to, that, and, in, have, for, no, with, his, my, it are repeated.
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