This is an analysis of the poem Blind Old Milton that begins with:
Place me once more, my daughter, where the sun
May shine upon my old and time-worn head, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcbccccacaaaadaded ebebabafafbfbgbgcgchchfhfXfbabaia ieieceXjcXhjhkhkbkbabagagcgcbcbkbkakaeaebeblb lmlmgmgigiaiajajdjdld lnlncecgcgogopopapamamemXaeababXbjbjbhbhdh dfdfbfbbbXbjbjajacacaca
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 21,33,45,21,42,23,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1111110101 1101111111 1011011101 1101010101 1101010101 1111011101 110011011101 0101110101 1101010101 1111011001 1101111101 1101010001 11010010101 1111111101 0100011111 1101010101 1111010111 1001010101 1101010111 0101001101 11011100011 1001011111 1111010101 1101010101 1101000101 0111110011 1111011111 1111011101 1111110101 0101111101 0101010101 1111110011 1100111101 1111110011 0101010011 1100010101 1011111101 1001010001 1101011011 11010100101 1101110111 11001010111 0111010100 1111000101 0101001101 1001001101 10100111100 10101000101 1101010101 11110100110 1101110011 11010111010 1101001101 01011101010 11111101001 1111111101 0110010111 1111110101 0100011101 1101000101 0101010101 1101010101 1011000101 110111100 01010001010 1111010101 10110001010 1100010101 1111110111 10010101001 1101110101 1101110101 0111010111 0111111101 111010111 0100111111 1111011111 0100110101 1011001101 1101111101 1101010001 0111000111 0100110001 1011001101 1111110101 1101010111 11001110101 0100010111 11011101010 1111010011 10111111010 0101010101 11011101010 1001010101 1101101101 1110011101 1111010101 01010000111 1100111101 1111011101 10110001001 10001010101 1100000101 0101010101 100111101 1111110111 0111111111 111000101 1101110101 1101010101 1101011111 0101010101 0100011111 11010100001 1011111111 11001010101 1111010101 11001110101 1001010001 1101011101 1011011101 1101001010 1011110101 01111101110 1011010101 1101110101 1101110111 1011011101 0101010111 11010111001 0101010100 1111000101 1101011001 1101010101 1101010101 110100100101 1111000101 1101010101 0101001110 0101010001 1101000101 11001111111 0100010101 11011010101 1011100101 1111010101 1111001101 0111010101 1111010101 0101010101 1011000101 1111001100 0101010101 1111010111 1101110101 0101110101 1101011101 10011110001 1111100101 010010010101 1011010011 1101000101 1111010101 1101110101 1111000101 1110010100 1101010101 01100111101 1101010001 0111010101 1101000111 1111100101 1010111101 1111111101 0011000101 1101010111 0110010101 1011010101 1101010101 1101011101 1011110111 1011010101 0111110001 0101111110
- Amount of stanzas: 7
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1123
- Average number of words per stanza: 205
- Amount of lines: 184
- 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; my, i, and, for, in are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, nor are repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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