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

LXXI
'O spotless virgin,' Honor thus began,...

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  • Rhyme scheme: X abababcc X dededeXX X fgfgfgee X XhXhXhii X cfcfcfjj X fafafacc X fafafXdX X ffffffcc X bfbfbfff X fbfbXbbb X bbbbbbkX X fbfbfbcc X klklklbb XXabababii
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,8,1,8,1,8,1,8,1,8,1,8,1,8,1,8,1,8,1,8,1,8,1,8,1,8,10,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 1 1101010101 111101101 1011110101 0101111111 1100111011 0111010101 1111010111 0100110101 1 1110010101 01001000101 1101110101 011110111 1101010111 0101010101 11011100110 010111110100 1 0110010101 010100011 1111111101 0101110101 1110111001 1111010101 1001110101 0001010111 1 111101010100 1111011100 10011111010 1101111001 11010111100 0101111101 110111111 0101111101 1 1111100101 1111011101 0101110101 1101010110 1100110101 0101001001 1101010101 1111011101 1 10001110101 0111110111 1111110101 01010001001 1011011101 1001100111 1011011111 1101101001 1 1111000101 1101110111 01100011101 0101010101 1011010111 0101011110 0100011111 1101110101 1 0111010101 1001101101 1001011101 1001011011 01010100011 0101010101 1011011101 0111110101 1 01010101001 0101010101 0011010101 1011010101 1101010001 0111101111 1111011001 0101110111 1 1111000101 0101110001 0101010101 1001110001 11011101100 0101100101 0101010001 1101111101 1 0101010101 1011010101 0101111111 0101010101 010000011 1101011101 1111110101 1001011110 1 1101000111 110010001 1110010001 1101011101 0111010101 1101010101 1111110111 1001011111 1 10101101101 0101110101 1101011101 1101111101 1111111111 11111100111 0111111111 011110101 1 1101100110 0111111101 1101010111 11010110111 11111100101 0101010101 11011000111 1101011101
  • Amount of stanzas: 28
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 177
  • Average number of words per stanza: 32
  • Amount of lines: 126
  • 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; thy, his, to, her, what, nor are repeated.

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

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