This is an analysis of the poem A Ioyfull Medytacyon To All Englonde Of The Coronacyon Of Our Moost Naturall Souerayne Lorde Kynge Henry The Eyght. that begins with:

The prologue
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  • Rhyme scheme: X XXXXXaaXbXXXccXbXbbXXXXXXXXXX deXXXffXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXgXeXXXaXaaXXeXXXdXXXXXXXXXXhXhhXXXXeXXXXaXaXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXfXXXXXXXXXXXXXfXXXXXXXXXXXXXdXddiXXXXXfXXXXgXXXXXXXXXXXXfXfXXXXXXcXXXhXhXXiXjXjXXXXd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,29,175,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 010 0101001010 00101001100 1001111010 1010110010 110010100 100101101 1101010101 01100111010 110110000100 011000111000 1101000110 100010000100 0110100001110 110000010100 10001001001 001010000111 1101001101 0101011111 100101101 01010101000 10111010100 10010010110 0101111010 10011110 1101011100 01000111101 10011011100 1010011101 010100 110101101 01100101011 101010110 1010010010110 1010010110 11011101101 111100111 1100111011 1011101010 101001111 0111011010 01001110010 1100110110 1000110110 111001101 01001011001 010010110001 1111001010 1010110110 111110001 0111101111 1111110000 10110110 0110101010 10101001110 10110110110 1001100001010 011011111 1001010101 010111011 1000100111 1001110001 10110000111 0011110111 111010011 1001110110 110010011001 01010110010 01010010101 0101010001 101100110 1011110100 1110010100 111111100 1010111000 1011000010 1110111110 11010110010 100110100010 1111111111 11110010010 10001111000 0111100010 011011011 010111010 10010110010 1111101100 1110001101 1111110110 100111101 1001111011 1011101111 100101100 011010011 101101010 1111111001 1000001010 0100101110 11110010001 1110001110 1101001101 0101101100 01110110101 1111100100 1011000100 11001011010 110011110 110100010001 1101011111 1110111101 01101111110 101101101 101110100010 0111011110 110111001 11010010101 1111010011 1001011111 1110011110 110010001100 11001101100 111101010 101101110 1001011110 0110101001 10110001110 11000101000 010100111 1101001110 0101110110 010111111 10010101011 0111001110 1000101010 0010110010 101100010100 01010111 110011110 1110101111 0101000111 1011101010 110111110 11100010011010 01101001001 010010101100 1101110110 0101101101 111100100101 1110000001 0111010101 01100101001 0111000111 111110001 11110001101 1001010110 10110011100 1001011110 1011011000 1110111011 100101111 1011101100 1100111100 110110101 0110001011 01111111111 1101001011 10110001101 1111011001 10101001001 1100010010 11010000110 1001000010100 1110011110 01100101100 100111010 0111001110 1101010110 100100010 1100000110 101110100 010100000010 11110111 111100100001 11110110100 11101011010 1011001110 111011110 101001100 10001101001010 01010100100 11110001001 01100010010 11001111000 110110100 101110110 00101010011 01000111111 1001111110 01110011000 1010101010 1111011001 111010101000 111100001001 01110001011 01
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 2899
  • Average number of words per stanza: 502
  • Amount of lines: 205
  • Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, of, dewe, his, haue, o, and, with, ryght are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, descended, o, ryght, and are repeated.

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

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

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase ryght connects the lines.

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