This is an analysis of the poem The Missionary - Canto Seventh that begins with:

The watchman on the tower his bugle blew,
And swelling to the morn the streamers flew;... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeeffggccffccggddffffffhhXgddccggiiijjjddcckkXfghhlljjXfccgXhhggffffhhffffaaccjjmmeemmbbhhXXccccnnjjhhccmmaahhhhccccaaoommjjmmjjmmffjjffffnnaaggXXmmjjccccjiddhhggppddccggmcmjjffffqqllpmmgggppoodXccccaaXdhhjjffijffhhhhaapphXccddmmmffhhccXjccmmXfppdd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 269,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 01010100101 1100010101 0101011001 11110101001 11000101001 1100010101 1101110001 11001010101 01001000101 1011101111 0100011101 1110111101 1111111101 1101110111 1101111111 0111001101 1111110100 1111010101 1111010111 1000110111 1111110101 01000100101 0101010101 1101010001 0101100001 1101111101 11010000101 0111010101 10010011111 0101011101 1101100101 1101011101 1111110100 1101110111 0101110001 0101110101 11100001001 0111011101 1111110101 1001111101 110101010010 10110101010 01010111010 1101010101 1001010111 1111110101 11010010101 1001111101 0111010001 100010000101 01011111001 1111010101 1111011100 10011101101 11001 10101 0101010101 01010101101 11000100101 1101110111 0111010101 11100101100 110101101 1101100101 1101010001 1111001001011 1001110101 1101110101 010001010101 1011010101 10001010101 11110010111 11010101001 11001100110 100110101010 1001010101 0101100101 0101011011 1100110111 0010011111 1101010101 0101011101 01010100001 1111010001 0101100101 0101110001 1001011111 01001010101 0101110011 1111011111 1001011101 01001011001 0100011101 1001111001 1101010001 0101010101 0101010101 11110010101 0101010101 11110100101 1111010101 0101010101 0101010101 11000101011 0101100101 0100011101 1101111101 0101110011 0101010001 01001010101 0111011001 0101011101 10010101001 010101111 0111000101 01001010101 00110001011 1111110100 0111010101 1101010101 00101110101 11001010001 1101010101 0101010101 1101010101 0100010111 1101011101 100100101001 0111100101 11110110111 1100111111 1111010101 0101010101 1101010101 11001010001 11001011101 1001010101 1101010101 100101010101 1101010101 1101110101 1101101001 010010100101 1100010101 0101011101 11110101001 100011101001 11110101001 01001000101 1101010001 10111011101 10110101001 1100011011 1101010111 11111100001 1001011101 01001010001 11110101001 1101010101 0101011101 0101011001 1111011001 10011001010 1011111001 1101010101 1110010101 0101011101 1101110101 110101100101 11010011101 1101010111 1101010101 0101010101 0011110001 10011110001 1001010101 1101010001 1101110101 110 1010111 0111000111 1100010101 0101010101 0101110101 0101010101 110100100101 0111010001 0101010101 10001011101 0101010111 110 1110101 0111010101 1101010101 1101100001 1011010101 1100101001 0111000111 10100100101 110101011 01001010101 1101111010 1101100101 01110011101 0101110001 0101110101 11010011001 0101010101 10101110100 0100010101 1110010001 1101110101 1011111101 1101010101 1000101101 1101010101 11110101010 10010111101 1101011001 1101010111 0101010101 10010111001 1101011111 1101010001 1100011001 11010100101 01110100101 0101000101 10101000101 1010010101 1011010101 1001010101 1101010101 0101100111 1001011101 1001010101 1110010001 01001010101 11011101001 0101110111 1101000101 11010101001 1101010101 11111110110 11011100101 1010010101 1001010101 1101110101 1001000101 1101010110 1101010101 11010100101 10100001101 1101010101 10010010101 0101011111 1011010101 1101010101 11010010101 1101010001 0101010101 0101011100 01010101001 0110010101 1110010101 1101111101 1111000101 1101010101 110101010001
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 11723
  • Average number of words per stanza: 1994
  • Amount of lines: 269
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; thou, thy, and, his, of, to, from, not are repeated.

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

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