This is an analysis of the poem Musophilus Containing A General Defence Of All Learning (Ex that begins with:
Power above powers, O heavenly eloquence,
That with the strong rein of commanding words... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abababcdcdcddedededbdbdbffffff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 30,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1001101100100 1001100101 11011101100 0101011111 1111001100 0101011101 1111110111 11010010101 1101011101 1011110101 1101000101 11100010101 1111010101 01001110101 1011010001 0101010011 11110101001 1101010001 1101110111 0100110111 0101110101 10101010011 1101101101 11010110111 1111111101 0100110101 110011011001 1111110101 1100110001 1111111001
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1491
- Average number of words per stanza: 234
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 49 (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; what is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word what is repeated.
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