This is an analysis of the poem To Giovanni Battista Manso, Marquis Of Villa. (Translated From Milton) that begins with:

These verses also to thy praise the Nine
Oh Manso! happy in that theme design,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeeffgghhiijjkkccccbbllfXeeeeXchheeaacchheelleeXchhaacceeaahhhhmeeeaaiXXmhhffemllcXffhhnngghXaaXXooeeembbXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 114,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1101001101 1101001101 1101100111 1101111111 1011110101 1111110101 0101010101 1111010101 1101011101 1101010011 1100011001 11010001001 0101010101 0101010101 11010010011 01001110001 1001011101 1101011111 1101011101 0111010001 1001010111 0011010101 1111010111 1111111101 1101010001 1111010101 1111110101 0111011101 1111001101 0101010001 1111000101 01000111010 1111110101 100110111001 1111010001 1101011101 1101111101 10101010101 1111010101 0101110001 1101010101 0101010001 0101010101 1101000101 1011010101 1111010101 1101010101 0101010101 1101010101 0101010101 100101001 1011110101 11000101 110101110101 1111011101 1101010101 1010010111 1011010101 0111110101 0111110101 1101010101 0111100101 1011011001 1101110101 1101011101 01011001001 11011101010 0101010101 11001110101 1111010101 11011001010 1101011001 1101110101 1101010101 0101010001 1101010101 1111110101 1101010101 1101010101 1111101010 1101111101 0101111101 1111100101 0101001100 1011110101 101000101010 1111010101 1101010001 1101010001 0111001101 1001110101 0100010101 0101010001 1001010101 1101011101 1101000101 1101100110 0111010101 11110101111 1111011111 1100110101 1101000101 1101110101 0101100101 1011010101 1111111101 1100010101 1101010101 1011010101 110001110010 1111011101 0101010101 1101011101 100110001
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 4929
  • Average number of words per stanza: 877
  • Amount of lines: 114
  • 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; to, his, phoebus, we, with, and are repeated.

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

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