This is an analysis of the poem Ave! (An Ode For The Shelley Centenary, 1892) that begins with:

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O tranquil meadows, grassy Tantramar, ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXbbbacacddX eeeeafafggX gcXchihieeX jfjfekekdda aaaaglglgga iXibfcfciiX cecedkdkcXX gfgfgdgdiiX didimnmnkkf dfdfococdda XabpbebejjX cecegegeiiX XbdbqpqakkX eieigdgdeeX ldldcrcriiX cgcgbXbkXeX ninifcfcccX gcgcdidinnX sasagigiddX ikikciciddX gag
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,11,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1 1101110100 1101010101 1001011101 0101000111 1100010101 1101000101 11110111001 111111 11010001001 11010011101 1 1111111111 1101010100 1111110101 1111010001 1011000001 1101010111 1011100101001 110111 11110011101 0111011101 1 1001010011 1101110111 110101111010 1011110101 1011110101 1111110101 0111011101 101001 01011111001 0111011111 1 10111100010 1101001101 01011101010 0101010111 11111101010 0101110111 01110101010 011101 0011001101 1101001101 1 0101011101 0100110001 0101111101 0110010101 01000011101 111010001 1101010111 010100 1011010101 0111010001 1 0101011111 1001010100 100110011 0111011001 1011000101 1001010101 0111000100 111111 11100000101 1101010101 1 1101011100 01010011111 1110010101 11100110001 1100010111 1101010010010 01010001001 1101110 0101011111 010011100 1 1101011111 0101010101 11001010101 00101011101 0111011111 11111011110 1101110101 011101 0111010111 1011110101 1 1111010011 0100010101 1001100100111 010101101 0111110101 0101100111 1001110111 110001 01001000101 0101010111 1 11110001001 0101110111 1100010001 1101110001 1100010101 0100110101 11010100101 100101 1101010001 1011000101 1 1101110100 1111010001 1001110101 01110101100 01110100101 1111111101 1101110101 011101 11011101010 11111111010 1 0111010001 0101010101 1001010101 10110100111 01100010111 1011011111 1101010101 010101 01011100101 1001010001 1 0111110101 1111110101 1100010101 11001010111 10010100011 1101010100 11010011101 111111 0111010111 01010010101 1 0110010111 0100010101 1100010101 0101010101 01011100101 1111011111 1101110101 100111 100100111010 11010101010 1 1111010101 1110011101 01010100011 1101010101 0111110101 1101010111 1001011111 110111 0101010101 100110001 1 100101000110 10001010101 100101010110 11010011101 0101101011 10011101010 0101010101 1101010 10100101010010 11001001101 1 1111000101 1101010101 0101010101 0011010001 0101001101 1111011101 1100011111 100111 10110100101 1101010101 1 1101000101 0101010001 111101000101 1101010101 00101010111 11001011101 10101000111 011101 01001110101 1110000101 1 01010101001 0101010011 101101011101 010100101 01011101010 0101010101 10010111010 111001 0101011101 0100100100 1 1111010101 0110000111 1101101001 0101010011 010010101010 0101011111 110100111010 010111 10111110001 01110000101 1 11110011101 110100001 010100111 0101011101 1011111100 10101011111 1101000100 011101 1001010011 1101111101 1 0110011011 1111010111 110101111 01110111011 1100100101 01001011101 1110111101 111111 0111011111 1101010001 1 1101111101 0111011101 1001010101 1011110111 1011000111 11010111001 1101110111 010111 1101110101 1101010101 1 1101110111 1111010101 01001111001 01011101001 1111111001 0001001101 11011101011 110101 0111011101 00010001001 1 11011100101 1100010101 0111110111 1101111101 1111010101 011000101 0101000111 010101 0101011101 0101010011 1 1001010111 1111110101 0101101001 1101111101 0100110101 1101010001 1001011101 101101 1001010111 1111000101 1 1001010101 00110011101 1111010101 1100011101 1101011111 01100111010 10010000101 1011010 0101000101 101101001000 1 11010101010 0101010101 010100100100 1101010100 1001011101 11110011111 110010111 110111 10110101100 0101000111 1 110101101101 0101010101 0101010110 01010101001 11010001001 1011000111 0111000101 111101 0101010101 1101011101 1 1111110101 01010100111 0111010101 0111010100 1111011101 01001011101 1001000110 011101 10101110111 10010100001 1 1111011111 1011100010 1101000101 01110101010 11001011110 101100101001 1011010101 101101 1100010101 0111010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 31
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 447
  • Average number of words per stanza: 73
  • Amount of lines: 362
  • Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, you, and, your, my, its, with, that, not, nor, thou, to, his are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, again, the, now, with, far, thyself, of, nor, thou, beyond, to are repeated.

    The author used the same words the, and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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