This is an analysis of the poem Retirement that begins with:
Hackney'd in business, wearied at that oar,
Which thousands, once fast chain'd to, quit no more,... full text
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- Stanza lengths (in strings): 808,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
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- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 34625
- Average number of words per stanza: 6222
- Amount of lines: 808
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, he, and, to, our, her, its, in, his, with, could, or, she, nor, i, that, d, not, as, it, but, s, some, by, what are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words from, to, the, and, could, till, nor, no, shall, as, her, some, where, hear are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines d is repeated).
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