This is an analysis of the poem The Spirit Of Discovery By Sea - Book The First that begins with:

Awake a louder and a loftier strain!
Beloved harp, whose tones have oft beguiled... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcdcebXfbgXchgijgcibigkglaXagmbgfdjnjghogeacccafackcgljiblpagclfqhroldbnlgggabgpasggbrbggocjlcbkEljgkgfaocgolXgclagbfbghnadmXbbdbaalabbgbcadtlgtkfegkfbggXngdjgcXggabalgcggsbcbgbkggogbbicebnXaglcgbqljngibfbclXgbabgbiaibcfgbgbchlssbbbnlgdmcfdlehjkbaobaalcf
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 452,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 01010101001 0101111101 1101010111 010100101101 0111010111 1101000101 1011000111 1100110001 1111011101 11111001101 110010001010 11000001001 1101011101 1101000111 1011000111 1111111111 11010010011 1001011111 1101010011 1101011111 1001111111 1011110111 10110101001 1101010101 1101000101 1111010011 11110100001 010101010 1001010 1011 01001100011 1101010111 1011000101 00101000101 1111100111 1100011101 01011111001 1101111111 1001010101 01010011111 11001010101 0101011111 1101010101 1101011001 1101010101 0101010111 1011001101 0101000101 1111011101 1101010101 1101010101 1011010101 1101010111 1101110101 110010010101 1001011101 0111010101 1011011101 011101110101 01010011011 1001111101 01010101001 1011010111 010100 1111 1101010100 1011111101 1001111101 1001011011 10101110101 1101011111 01100111101 11010011101 0111011101 100101101 1011010101 1101010111 0101010101 101101 1111 1100110001 0111010101 010011100111 0111000101 0111101111 0101101101 1101000101 0111110001 1101010101 1101010101 01011100111 1101011100 10011111001 11010001 011 0101110111 0101010101 0101010101 10010111001 10011010111 0101011101 100101011 10001010100 0101011101 01111001100 10001010001 1111010001 0111010111 01000101111 1101010111 1001101100 1011010101 1101110111 01110100101 1101110111 1011010111 0010010101 1101010011 1101010101 1100010111 0101011101 0101010101 1001110001 1101000111 110101001001 10100101000 11010001101 1101011101 1101010101 11001010111 0101010101 0101000101 1101010111 01010010111 1100101101 11011100101 1001000101 0101000101 1110110011 0111011011 10011010001 11001010110 1100010101 0101111101 10010011010 1101011101 1101110101 0011110111 1100110101 1001011011 0101000011 0101010101 11010101001 1101010011 1011110111 1101010101 1111011101 01110010011 11011000101 010101010101 11110011111 0101110101 10101010101 1001110101 0100011011 110100101001 0110011111 0101010111 01010111001 0101101101 1101010101 1101110111 1011010100 0101011001 01010101111 1100110101 0101011101 0111011101 1001011111 0101110101 1101110101 1101010101 0101010101 1101010111 0101010111 0111010111 0100010111 11000100111 1001000101 0101111011 1101110100 11001111111 1111110101 1101011101 10110010100 1101011101 0101010111 0101101100 1101000101 0111111111 1101110101 0100110001 1111010111 1111000101 0100000101 1101100111 0111011101 1101101101 01010101001 100110100011 1111010101 0101011001 0101010101 0101011101 1101010101 010 0010101 1101000111 0101100101 11010101001 0101010111 010101 1011 0110110001 0101010111 1101101101 0101100101 1101110100 0101110111 01110000111 10111100101 1111101101 1101010101 1110010111 0101010101 0101110101 0101011001 1101010101 11010010111 1001100101 010010100001 1101000101 1101110111 0101010101 10001011101 1001110001 01111001101 11010010101 1101011101 0101110111 0111011111 1101011001 1101010101 1111110101 1101010111 1111010111 0111100101 10010100101 01010100111 1011010001 11010110101 01011010001 0101001111 11000010101 0110110101 110110010101 1000111101 1111001001 0111010101 1101010101 0101110101 0101010111 100101101 0101010101 01010100101 0101011101 0100011111 0101011111 1111011101 0111110101 1001000101 1101010101 0101010001 1011010101 1101100111 0101010101 1001100101 1110010101 01110010101 1101010111 01010010101 1111000111 0111001101 0101111101 0100111100 0101010101 0101000101 01010100101 0101011001 0101010101 0101110101 1011010101 1101000101 10001010101 1101011101 010010101010 0101011101 10010101011 1011010101 0101010 11 01111000101 0101110100 1101110101 1101100101 01001110101 1111010100 1101011101 1101111111 1100110100 1110110101 01010100101 1011010111 1101110101 1101010101 0101011011 1101010101 1111111101 0111011111 1001011101 10010011111 1110010101 1101110111 010010011101 0101010001 010101 1111 1100110101 01011101001 1101010011 10010011101 0101110100 1001010101 1001010101 0101011101 1101111111 0011010111 01011 010101 0111010101 11001011111 01110010101 0101000111 10010010111 0101010101 1101010011 1101010101 1101111101 10010010111 1111001000 0111000111 01110010111 0110010101 1101010111 0100010111 1011010100 0100110101 01010101001 1101010011 1010010111 1101110101 10010101010 1010010101 0101110100 100111 1101 1101011100 1101111011 0101000101 1101111011 11101100 11 1101010101 1100010101 1100110101 1101010111 0100110111 100111 1011 01011010111 1011111001 11010110011 11011100100 1011000101 1011011011 01000101001 1101 010101 1101011101 0101011101 1101010101 1101110101 0100110111 11100110101 111101 1011 1111110100 11011000111 0101011101 1001010101 1101010111 1101000101 1101010100 0101011111 0101111011 01001111101 1101110101 11001100101 0101110101 1100110111 0110010111 0101101101 01110100101 1011010101 01010011101 0011010101 10011110001 01110010101 1011000101 1101010001 0101110101 1001011 1001 1101010101 0100111101 0111010111 01010011001 1111011101 1100101111 1001011100 1111011101 1101011111 0101111111 0101010101 1001111111 110001 1101 1101010101 1111010101 100100100111 0101010101 1001010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 19122
  • Average number of words per stanza: 3342
  • Amount of lines: 452
  • Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
  • 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; i, and, of, to, from, his, as, her are repeated.

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

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines man is repeated).

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase peace connects the lines.

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