This is an analysis of the poem Ode that begins with:
HOW sleep the Brave, who sink to Rest,
By all their Country's Wishes blest! ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbbb X ccddee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,1,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011101 11110101 101010101 01011101 11110101 11011101 1 11011101 11011101 11010101 01011111 11010101 01010101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 149
- Average number of words per stanza: 27
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (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; their is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word by is repeated.
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- Analysis of Dirge In Cymbeline
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