This is an analysis of the poem Uriconium: An Ode that begins with:

It lieth low near merry England's heart
Like a long-buried sin; and Englishmen... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababcadcadeedd cbcbfghfXhbbhh aiaigjXgjkllkk mamajnmjnmjXmm lolocapcapqqpX aeaejrijrqrrii plplgfbgfbccbX rcrcajsajsggjj
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,14,14,14,14,14,14,14,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 011110101 1011011110 0110011111 1101110101 010101 11010100101 11010101101 011101 0101010011 1101011101 1101011101 0111100101 1011011101 1011011111 1111010101 1101110111 1101100001 11010011101 110111 11110000101 1101011101 011101 10011111010 1101010111 1001101101 1101011101 11001110101 1101110101 1110110101 1101111001010 11010010101 01011101110 101101 0101010101 11010101011 111001 0111011101 1111111101 111111001001 11111101101 11110100101 110010110001 1101110111 01001001101 0101111101 1111010111 011111 1100110101 11011111111 100101 1101010111 11010100111 1111111111 11001001101 1011010100 0111110100 11110001010 1011011101 01001111010 1101111101 110101 1001010101 1010010101 110011 1101110101 1001010111 0101010101 1111010101 11011111001 0101111001 1111010111 1111011111 1101101111 1001010101 110001 0101011101 10010101010 010101 1100010011 0101010101 0101010000 1001001100 11011101010 01010101010 1111110101 110110101110 1011111001 1100110001 110100 11111111111 1111010101 110100 11100111001 1111010111 11010010111 1101011101 1101110101 1111110111 010100111001 1101111111 0101010011 1101010011 1111 11011111001 1001100100 1111 0101010101 1011011100 1111111111 1101111111 11111010101 101111011101
  • Amount of stanzas: 8
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 573
  • Average number of words per stanza: 105
  • Amount of lines: 112
  • 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; and, how, long, of, our are repeated.

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

    The author used the same word o at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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