This is an analysis of the poem Hezekiah that begins with:

From the bleak Beach and broad expanse of sea,
To lofty Salem, Thought direct thy way;...

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabb ccdd efeeccbbbbgghhdd iihh ggddjjkkllggXbmmeXnndd ddeeaaddmmbbbbggjjbb nnccaa bbmm bbjjnncc ccbbcchhaabb bbjjddeeggbbccccaabbddnnbXjjjj aammbbooaallmmnnaa kkppbbaaqqrr lleeeebb aabb cceX mmooddbX jjbbmmnnbbeeaabbhhcc gg kkmmaabb cclljjkk ddbb aaoofed
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,16,4,22,20,6,4,8,12,30,18,12,8,4,4,8,20,2,8,8,4,12,2,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 0011110101 0101010111 11110010101 111111001 1101110101 1101110101 1101011101 010101001 1111010101 11010101010 1001010101 1101011101 11011101001 0101110011 1101110101 0101110101 0101010111 0101011101 1111010101 1101000101 0101010101 0101010101 1101011001 1011010101 1101011101 0101010001 11011111001 1111011101 1001000101 1111110110 1101010101 1101011111 0101110101 1101110101 0111110101 0101110101 1111010101 1101011111 1011110101 1101010101 0111010101 1101001111 01010010111 11010101101 1001110101 1101011101 1101010111 1101010101 0101010111 1111110111 1101011111 1011011101 1001010001 1011010101 10011100101 1011010101 1100110101 10011101101 0101010101 1111010101 0101010101 1101010101 01111001111 0101011101 1001010101 11010010101 1101001101 1101111101 0111011101 1101010100 1001010101 0101010101 1111111111 11001010101 1110101101 1011010101 11011000111 1101111101 1011010101 1101011101 0101011101 0111010101 1101010101 1111110101 11001010101 0101110111 0101110101 1101110101 10101110101 1101010101 1101010101 1101001101 1001110101 1111010101 0111110101 1111010101 1101110111 0101110101 1111011111 1111110101 1111100101 1101111101 1001010111 1110010101 1110110101 1101010101 1111110111 1011010101 1111010110 1001010001 1111110101 1011010111 1101110101 1111011001 1101010111 1001110101 0101010101 0101111101 1001110101 1001011111 1101110101 1111111101 1101011111 1101010111 1101011101 0101010101 01111100111 1111011101 0101110111 1111110111 1001111101 1101000111 1111110101 1101100111 1111110101 0101001100 1111110111 11001110001 1101110101 1111100101 0101110101 1111010101 0101110111 11111101001 0101011101 1111111001 1111000101 1111011101 1111111101 11010111001 1001010101 1011110011 0101010101 0101010111 1111011101 1101110101 1011001101 0001011111 0101010111 1111010101 1101010101 1101010001 1111010101 1111010101 1101111101 1011010101 1101110101 1101011101 1101111101 0111011101 1100110101 0111011001 1101010101 1011011101 0101010101 0111000101 11010100101 1011110011 110101101 0101010101 1101010001 1101010101 1101001101 1101010111 0011010111 0111110101 11010010101 11110011101 1101010101 1001110101 1101011101 1101010101 1101110101 1111000101 1101001001 0011010101 0111010101 1001010111 1101010101 1111011101 1101010101 1111111101 0111010101 1100110101 11110001111 1001010101 010101101 1101011111 110111001 1111011101 1111110101 0111001001 1101111101 0101010101 1101011111 1111010101 1001010111 1101010101 0101010101 1111110101 0101110101 11110010101 1101001101 11110010001 1101111111 1100111101 1111010101 0101110101 100111101001 1100101001 00111101110 01111100101 1101111101 1101000101 1101110101 1101010101 1101000101 1101000101 1111010111 11011100110
  • Amount of stanzas: 24
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 452
  • Average number of words per stanza: 81
  • Amount of lines: 240
  • Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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; thy, and, to, this, what, his, back, he, with, like, my, these, living, or, creature, ev'ry, our are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, what, when, now, my, these, so, in are repeated.

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

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  • summary of Hezekiah;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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