This is an analysis of the poem Jerusalem Delivered - Book 04 - Part 02 that begins with:

XVII
'Among the knights and worthies of their train,...

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  • Rhyme scheme: XabababcX X dededecc X dcdcdcXa X cdcfcfgg X ahahahcc X beeebedd X hihihibd X djdjdjaa X Xklklkhh X XicicXXX X dfdfdXXe X eXececcX X dddddddc X bcXcXcbX X jmjmjiX X kdXdkdXl
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,1,8,1,8,1,8,1,8,1,8,1,8,1,8,1,8,1,8,1,8,1,8,1,8,1,8,1,7,1,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1 1001110011 1111110111 1101011101 1100010111 1101011101 11011100111 1111010101 1101110101 1 0101010101 01010010101 111010101 111110111 0101011101 1010011101 110100100111 0101011101 1 0101111111 100010101 0101011 1010110001 1111011111 0101011011 11001011110 01011011 1 0101010101 11001011 010101011 01011000101 1001111101 011010110 11010111001 11111111011 1 111110101 1111010101 1011010101 0111100101 111011101 00101111111 1001110001 01010011101 1 1111010101 1010101 1111011101 1111010101 1111010101 1100011101 1111010111 011010101 1 11001110101 1101111101 0111011101 100010101 01110101 1111010101 0011010001 110111111 1 1111011101 1101001101 101111 1111011101 0111011101 0101110101 1101011101 1001011111 1 1001011110 1101110101 1101111011 1111111101 11010111011 01010101 1111111111 010110101 1 1001110011 1101100101 1011010111 11001110101 1101010101 1101101101 1110110101 1111011111 1 0101010111 0101110111 0111010101 1101010100 0101110001 1101011100 0111001010010 11111011 1 011101011 1101010110 01010101101 111011001 1101010101 010101101 1101111101 1101111110 1 1101010101 1001010101 0101010101 1101010111 0101010101 11010111001 01010111010 110110011 1 01001010101 11011101 01001010110 1101110101 0111010110 011010101 0111110101 1111111111 1 01111000101 11110111010 0101010101 11110101110 0111110101 1101011001 11010010 1 1101011101 0101100111 110110101 1001010101 0101010101 11010101 01110101010 1100111
  • Amount of stanzas: 31
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 178
  • Average number of words per stanza: 32
  • Amount of lines: 143
  • Average number of symbols per line: 38 (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; some, let, and, nor, he, what, to, i, for, his, still are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word let is repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines war is repeated).

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