This is an analysis of the poem Jerusalem Delivered - Book 03 - Part 01 that begins with:

THE ARGUMENT.
The camp at great Jerusalem arrives:...

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  • Rhyme scheme: abababacc defefefaa Xacacacaa XXdadadaa XfXXdfdaa deaeaXacc dbabababb Xdededeee XgegebeXX XhbhbhbbX gXiXiXidX deaeaeaXX Xecececjj XaeaeaedX XkeXekeaaXeXeaeaee
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,18,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 0100 0111010001 0101010001 01010010101 1100011111 101010001101 0101111101 1001010101 1111000101 1 0101010101 1101010101 0101110101 01010010101 1101010111 1111110101 1101010101 1111011111 1 1101110111 1100110101 1111010001 0101011001 11010011101 11010011101 1101110011 1111010111 1 1011110101 10111011011 11011100101 1101011101 0100010101 0100111111 0100010111 0101110001 1 1101010101 1111110010 11001110110 1001011101 010111001 1101000101 1101010101 0101111101 1 0101111101 111010011 0101001101 110011100001 1011110110 0111111111 1111110101 1111111101 1 1111111111 1011011101 1111011011 1101011101 1111011111 0111110101 1101011101 0101010111 1 1101110101 10001001101 1111111101 11010110101 1101110101 01110011111 1111011011 1001110101 1 10001010101 1101110101 111010101 0101010101 101101010 0101111110 1101011100 11011101010 1 0101010110 0101100111 11010111010 1111010101 11011111010 110011100111 0101110101 1111010110 1 111110101100 1101011101 11011101100 0101011101 011101101100 10111011001 1101011101 11011111010 1 0101010101 011010101 1111011101 0101001101 0101011101 1101110101 1001100101 1111010110 1 1111010101 1001011101 11110111001 1101011101 10100101001 100111010 11010100101 1101011111 1 0111010101 11001011101 0101011001 0100011001 0101110111 1011010111 1011111011101 01010111110 1 1001110101 1101110101 0101110101 1111110101 0110011101 1101010111 0101111101 1111010001 1 1111011101 1101000111 0101111101 1001011101 0101110101 110111011 0101111101 1101111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 15
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 393
  • Average number of words per stanza: 69
  • Amount of lines: 145
  • Average number of symbols per line: 40 (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; arm, their, they, jerusalem, where, he, of, and, her are repeated.

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

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