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

O Thou enfolded in grief,
Man, with thy mantle of scorn!... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbcaXbdcddb effgXfhgihigg jkklkjgflllf mifdfieebmdmb dddhdllXebdebdb geeljgelngXee heeXhehcndeddX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,13,12,13,15,13,14,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1110001 1011001 0111 011001 1101011 0110100 01100111 111001 100101010 100101101 0100101 010111 1111001 0101111 00111 11111101 00101101 0110101 001111001 11111 11101 00100101 0101111 0010101 111 10110010 00101111 01101 010100101 10001001 1101011010 11111 10111 11100111 0111001001 010100101 10101 11100011 1110101 01011001 0100101101 0101101 11101 100111 011 0111110 11110101 011101101 10111101 01111010 111001 0101001 0101111 1011010100 111101 101111101 001011101 00101100 1010101011 01101 00101 00101001 010110101 10101 100111 101011 1001001 11100 1111001 0101100 100011 10101111 11110101 0100100 10101011 011010 11100100 11111 11101001 101001001 100111 0100100 1010101101 10111 11110101 1111101 11100100 111101001 111100111 0100100 1111111 1101
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 410
  • Average number of words per stanza: 79
  • Amount of lines: 92
  • Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; thy, in, to, they, their, of, and, soldiers, her, she, hast, who are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words in, let, a, the, from, of, she, as, who are repeated.

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

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