This is an analysis of the poem Jerusalem Delivered - Book 01 - Part 04 that begins with:

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Guelpho next them the land and place possest,...

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXabXbacc Xbbbbbbdd Xdcdcdcee XfgfgXXdd XgbgbXbee Xacacaccc Xbdbdbdcc XbbbXXbcc XehehXhgg fciciciff agbgbgbjj XjcjcjcXb XcgcgcgddXggggXggg XXcccXXXe
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,18,9,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1 1010011110 1100001101 1001010101001 1111010100 0101010101 0101100101 111100101 11110110101 1 0101001011 0111011101 010110101 111111011 0111010101 1111011101 1101011101 0111100101 1 0101010111 1101011101 1101110111 0101111100 1100001101 1101010101 01111111010 11110101110 1 1011110101 1001010111 10101010111 11011100101 1100100110 0101010111 11001011101 0101110101 1 0101110111 1001010101 01000101001 1001011101 1101011100 0111110001 10010001001 1101010111 1 111111011 1101010101 01001010011 010111101 1100010101 1111010101 1111010111 0111100111 1 01010110011 0101110101 0101110101 0111000101 1011010111 1101011101 1111011111 11110100101 1 0101011111 1111011111 0101010101 1111100010 1101000110 0101010101 0101010101 1111110011 1 1111010001 1101111101 0111010111 0110010101 1101010111 1001111101 1101110101 1101110101 1 1101110111 1101011101 1101110101 1111011101 1101010111 01011000101 1001100110 1101011101 1 1011101101 0101100101 1111111001 0101010111 1101110101 1110011111 1010010101 1101111101 1 0101110111 100011000111 01010001001 1001111101 11000110101 01010111101 1110110101 1101011101 1 1001011111 1101110110 1111011101 1111111101 1101000101 0101110101 0111010111 1101010101 1 101101011 1101010101 0101111001 1001010101 1001001100 110101011 0101001111 1010010101 1 1001110100 0110010101 11011000101 11011100101 1111010111 0101011100 11011100110 01010101010
  • Amount of stanzas: 14
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 387
  • Average number of words per stanza: 69
  • Amount of lines: 135
  • 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; his, with, her, love, wonder, and, their, o, in, of are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words a, their, her, his are repeated.

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