This is an analysis of the poem Jerusalem Delivered - Book 04 - Part 06 that begins with:

LXXXI
'Ah! be it not pardie declared in France,...

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  • Rhyme scheme: X abXbabcX X ddddddba X dXdefebb X agaXXehh X ijijijbk X cfcfcfdd X ieeeeecc X ililillh X XigiXidc X mcmcmXhh X ddddddee X bbbXbXki X laXmbmhh X dadadann X mXmglgmm X Xadadbhm
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,8,1,8,1,8,1,8,1,8,1,8,1,8,1,8,1,8,1,8,1,8,1,8,1,8,1,8,1,8,1,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1 100110101 11111100001 1101110100 11110101 1101011111 1111010101 1101100101 1101100101 1 11001101 00110101 1100110101 0101110111 11111001 1111010111 1001110100 010111101 1 1001111101 1101010111 1111110101 01110101 111101010 0101011101 0111010101 1101100101 1 1001011001 10110110 1101011101 1011101110 0111010100 11111010 1111011001 011111001 1 0111010101 1101110101 1111010101 1111010111 01010101011 1100010111 110111101 0010101010 1 111010111 111011010 101010111 1100101010010 01011111 11010110110 1011100101 011110111 1 110111010 1011011101 11001001001 100100101 0111010101 1101010101 1111010101 1101110101 1 0111011101 100010111110 1001010110 11110101110 11001110101 11010101010 1011111100 011101010 1 10110100110 001000101 1111101111 1111010101 1101010110 1101110101 10111101110 11010111 1 01110101 0101010001 010110101 111110101 100101011 0101011111 1111111101 11010101 1 0110011001 0101010110 0101011111 01111110 11001000101 01100101010 1111010101 1101010111 1 0101011101 11100110 1011110101 110011100 1011011101 0110101000 110111100 0101111101 1 11101111110 11111110 0110001010 1001110101 10111100 1101010101 110110101 1111010101 1 1111010101 1101010101 100110011 0101010001 11011101011 1101010101 11010101 11010101 1 0110101 1101011110 011101101 1111101001 1101010100 1101110111 1101010101 1111111101 1 1001111100 010011101 1001100110 1101010101 1100010001 011001111 1110000101 0101010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 32
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 173
  • Average number of words per stanza: 32
  • Amount of lines: 144
  • 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; of, she, and, their, her, to, twixt are repeated.

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

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