This is an analysis of the poem Hope, An Allegorical Sketch that begins with:
I am the comforter of them that mourn;
My scenes well shadowed, and my carol sweet,... full text
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- Rhyme scheme: ababbcbcbb acaccbXbdd eaeadfdfgg cbcbdcdcbb hfhffafahh dfdffcfcdd hfhfbhbhii ececcjcjcc efefdedehh kbibjljlaa bdbXcgcgee cbcbibibik mimiababbb cbcbddcdbb ddddbcbcbb iciccacajj ccccababaa ciciacacnn ioiodhdhee gigimpmpii nananfnfbb bjbjcdcdff cpcpcccccc ac
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,10,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1101000011 1111011101 1011000111 1111001101 1101110101 1111010101 1111011101 1111110101 1111101101 111111110011 0101110101 1100010111 0011010001 10010010111 0101010111 1101011111 10010101110 1101101101 1100110101 110111010101 1011010111 0101000111 0101010111 1111011111 1011010011 1101110101 1101011101 1111010111 1111110101 010111111100 1101010111 0100111101 1101010101 0111011101 10101011001 10101010101 0101011101 11001111101 1101110101 1100101110111 1101001101 11010100101 0101011101 1111011101 1111010101 1100010101 11110100101 0101010101 11010100111 1001010110111 1111011101 1101000101 1011010111 10010111001 110100100101 10011001101 1101110101 1001010101 0111010101 010111110101 1111010101 0111010101 1001110001 1111000111 1101011101 1101010101 1001011101 1111010101 0101011111 111111110001 11101101001 0001011111 11111101001 1100110101 1101010101 11010100101 11010010101 1101101101 0101110101 011101010111 1111000101 1101111111 1101010111 11011101001 0111010011 1101000111 0101110111 100111101001 1111101111 110101011001 01110110010 11010010101 1111011101 1101010100 0111010101 010011100101 1011010101 1111010101 1011010111 111101111111 1101110101 1101110001 1101100001 10110100111 1111110001 1101010001 1111010101 1111110011 1101110101 11010011100101 1001010011 1101111101 1111001101 1100010101 1101010101 0101000101 01011000101 110010111001 1100111001 11001011101010 1101001101 11010010111 10010011001 1101010101 1101010101 101110010001 1111110101 01011100101 1101111001 110001110101 1111110111 0101000101 1101111101 1111110011 1011011101 1111111101 1101000111 1011110110 11110011111 1100111100001 1101010101 0101011111 1001110101 1111010101 0101010101 110110101 11010010101 1101000101 1101010101 101101010101 10010101001 011110101 11110000101 0101000101 0101010011 10010100101 1001111101 1101110101 1111001101 1001001010111 1101011101 1011010101 1111010101 1001011101 1111111101 1011011111 1101010101 11110100101 1111110101 01011011001001 1010101 110010101 1010101 11010001 01010100101 11011011101 11010100101 0111010101 0111100101 01010010101001 1110111111 11010111101 0100010111 10101111111 1111010101 1111011101 1001010111 1011110101 1101110011 010101010101 1111010001 0101111101 01000100101 1011010111 1111011001 1101000101 1101011001 1101011111 1001010101 0111001010101 0111010101 0101000101 0111110101 1101010101 1101001101 1101000101 1111010111 1111001101 1101111101 111101010111 1101100101 1010010101 0111010111 1101110101 0011010001 0101110111 11001010101 1111010111 1111010101 110101010101 10010111001 1111110101 0101010111 01011000101 1111010101 0011010101 1101110101 1111110111 1011110111 110100011101 1100110101 0101110011 1101010101 11001010101 0111111101 11110100101 1101100101 11111100101 1111111011 111111110101 1111010001 1100011001 11001011101 1101101111 0101101001 1101100111 1101110111 1101110001 1001011101 111001010101 1101110101 1101010101 1101010101 1101010101 0101011101 101110100101 1111110001 0111011101 11010010101 111101010001 1111010001 11110100111 1101011101 1011010101 1101110111 1111010101 0101011101 1111001101 11010100101 111101111101 1101111111 1011000100 11110101001 0111010101 1111110111 1111111101 1101010101 1101110111 1111111101 110101110101 1111010101 0101110111 1010000101 1101011001 1101110111 1100010101 1100010111 1101011111 1011011101 100101110101 1101111001 1011010101 11011010001 1101110101 0111010110 1101100101 1111011011 1101011101 1111010001 110101010101
- Amount of stanzas: 30
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 449
- Average number of words per stanza: 81
- Amount of lines: 300
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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, and, his, he, with, her, by, dost, thou, she, no, my, they, him are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words that, as, and, her, by, the, she, he, these are repeated.
The author used the same word as at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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