This is an analysis of the poem Jerusalem Delivered - Book 03 - Part 04 that begins with:

XLVI
Three times he strove to view Heaven's golden ray,...

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  • Rhyme scheme: Xabacacdd Xddddddee XafaXafgg XacacacXegehehXhee aeiejXXbb XcXceceee XkekXkegg lcmcmcmee XcdcdcXee XdcdcdcXh Xddddddcb XXedededd XdededeeX Xjbibjbll
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,9,9,18,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1 11110110101 1111010111 1111010101 1111010101 1111110101 1111111111 1001010101 1101010101 1 1100010111 10001010101 11110111101 1111110101 1101111001 1111110101 0111011001 1101010100 1 10101111101 1011110111 1011100101 11011111110 010101010 1101111101 1001000101 1100011101 1 1101011101 10110101110 0111001101 11110101010 0101111111 0100011010 1101000110 1101011111 1 111110001 1111010111 1101111001 10011110101 1111010110 1101110101 1111111101 1101010101 1 10101011100 10010101010 1101010101 0101011011 1101111110 010101010100 1011100111 1111010111 1 0101110101 0101110110 10010011111 1101011101 0111110111 01011100111 1101010101 1111110101 1 0101010101 0001111101 10000111000101 01110101010 1101011101 110010101 0101011111 1101011111 1 01011100111 01011101110 0101010101 01010111110 0111011101 01010001010 1110000101 1001010101 1 1000010111 010111101 0101010101 0101100111 11111000111 0101010110 1101011101 11110101001 1 0101011101 0111010101 0101011101 1011010111 1111010101 010110101 11011110001 011011111 1 1101010101 0101010101 1101110101 0101110101 11101011111 0101110101 1011110101 0101010101 1 11011100110 0101011101 1111011101 1101010111 010111111 1110010101 1101010111 0101110101 1 10111000101 1101110100 1001010111 0101010100 01110011001 1001100100 101010111 10110101010 1 0101111111 1111000101 1101010100 11111100101 1101110111 0111010100 0101010101 0101010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 14
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 389
  • 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; he, this, from, and, in, i are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, he, the, his are repeated.

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  • summary of Jerusalem Delivered - Book 03 - Part 04;
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