This is an analysis of the poem Ivry that begins with:
NOW glory to the Lord of hosts, from whom all glories are!
And glory to our sovereign liege, King Henry of Navarre! ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddaa ddcceeeeaa Xfddggddaa hXhXbbffaa hhiihhjjaa ddffXhjjaa hhXcffkkaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,10,10,10,10,10,10,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 11000101011101 11001101110001 11100101010101 111111101110101 111111111100010 011101010111010 11110011010011 11111111111101 01010101110101 0101110110001 1111010110101 11010001110101 01011100110101 11001100110101 11010101010011 11101001010001 111110110101001 10100101110001 111100101110101 01101101110001 01010101010101 11110111010101 11010101011001 11010101011111 11001111110101 111101001111101 10110101111111 11011101010101 11111111010101 10110001010001 0101110100101 01111111110100 01001010101111 010100100010110 11010111110001 1101010010001 01011101010101 01011101010111 10111111110101 01010101010001 11010101101101 1011110010101 11110111010101 01010101111101 1111110110111 01010101110101 1111010111011 110100100111101 11110101010101 11101110010001 1111010111101 11001010110101 1100010111101 1001010110011 11110100001111 00110101010101 10010101110111 11110011110111 11011101110101 10110101110001 1100010110010 11111111110101 110111001100100 11011101111101 11010001111101 11001101111101 11111010111101 110100011010001 11000101011101 11001101110001
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 618
- Average number of words per stanza: 115
- Amount of lines: 70
- Average number of symbols per line: 61 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 12
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, and, our, hurrah, we, his, upon, he, thousand, d, man, white, cornet, ho, for are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words hurrah, and, he, a, ho are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word navarre at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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