This is an analysis of the poem An Ode To Master Anthony Stafford, To Hasten Him Into The Country that begins with:

1 Come, spur away!
2 I have no patience for a longer stay;... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbacaadeed ffggaahheffe acaahhiigggg bbXgddaabjjb eeXXddXkehhX aaeehfkkaaac bbjjacffbllb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,12,12,12,12,12,12,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11101 11111010101 11111 111010010011 1100101 1110100 11101 11111 11100011101 111110111 1111101 1111111110111 11011 11011011101 11011 11111000101 1110101 1111101 10101 11001 11001011101 111010101 1111101 111001011100101 11001 11101110110 111001 11101010111 11111001 1110101 11111 11111 11111010111 111000101 1111101 1010001110101 11101 11101010111 11111 10101110111 1110101 1110011 11101 11110 11111111111 110110101 1110101 1010101110011 10011 11101011001 11111 11100010001 1111101 1111101 11100 10111 11101011101 101110111 110001001 11011011101010 11001 11111111111 11011 101010111001 1111111 1010111 10111 10111 11101011100 110110101 1011101 11011111001100 11111 10101010111 11111 10111010101 1111111 10100100 11111 11101 10100010101 111010101 1110101 1010101011101
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 479
  • Average number of words per stanza: 83
  • Amount of lines: 84
  • Average number of symbols per line: 39 (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; of, my, and are repeated.

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