This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet Ix. To Priestley that begins with:
Tho' roused by that dark Visir riot rude
Have driven our Priestly o'er the ocean swell;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababbcbcdbdebe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1111110101 110110100101 1101010101 10110010011 1001010111 1101010101 1011000101 11010101001 01011101010 11010110101 01010101010 1001011101 1101010101 0101010101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 603
- Average number of words per stanza: 106
- Amount of lines: 14
- 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 is repeated.
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