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

Oh for a view, as from that cloudless height
Where the great Patriarch gazed upon the world,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcbdceXfdbddbagbhidabXghbcXjakhabgXjdglbmXdddjddhlcfabknlblkkbkjgdaaXboadhgddgdpbdgqrgpadgdnrXrajhfdnncXfnbldnrdbafadbrhcfdqdjpdbXnbldbabhaiajbjg ijblfbgXfdfddcgdpgbdnhagardnaXdndjdbrdggjnXddbdXabgadbdgdbadnpaajdgpqcndlfndbjobnXcXjlddadblsbaXnXhliridXlXb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 146,212,1,19,1,9,1,20,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1101101101 10110110101 0101011101 0001011101 1001010101 11010011001 0101010101 1001010100 0111010101 1101011100 0011001101 10001010101 110100001 110111101 0111010101 1101010101 010110001 0111010111 11001001111 11010101 11 0101010101 1001010100 11001000111 0101010111 0111110101 0101010100 1110111110 1111010101 0101010 101 0111110011 0111010100 0101110001 1101011101 011101001100 11001111101 0011010101 0100100101 1101100101 10010010111 0101010101 01010111110 1100110101 0101011100 00110101001 1101000111 11010101110 1100100101 01111010111 0101010101 0101110100 0101011101 1101000111 11010100101 1001110101 0100010101 10100101 110101 01010011 1011010101 1000111001 110111010111 1101000101 10011101001 11110010001 10110101 11 0100001001 1110010100 1111011101 0101011101 01001010101 1111011001 1001110001 1010010100 1101010101 0111010111 1111000111 1101011101 0011010101 0101010111 01001110101 1101110111 01110100101 11001010101 0101001101 1011110101 1100010111 0101000101 0101010101 1001 110101 1101001101 1101011100 1101011101 0111110101 1011100101 0111011111 1101010111 0101010101 1001100101 1101111111 11011110101 0101011001 0111110001 1111110101 11001011111 10010111011 1111111101 10001010111 0100110111 1101010001 0101010101 0101010111 11010100101 0111011011 1011011011 0101110111 0111011101 01001011101 11010101001 1100010101 1101011101 1100110101 1111100101 01 110101011 1101111101 10110100101 1100011000 1101000101 11010101001 0101011001 1101110111 0111110101 0101011001 1111010101 1101010111 010101001001 1101000101 11110010101 11001010111 1011000101 11010101001 111101 1101 0110101101 1101011111 0101010111 0110000101 0100001001 01 01011100100 01010010101 1101000011 1100110101 0101010100 1011010100 0111011011 1011001101 1101010111 1101010111 0110001101 1101010001 1001110100 110011100011 1101110101 1100010101 1100110111 0111011101 01110100101 1101010111 0101111101 10010010001 0101010110 0101010101 1001010101 0101010101 01001110101 0101111101 1111010101 1111011101 1111010111 01010011111 0101001101 110100110011 1101010111 010001 1101 11110100011 10010101001 010100001001 1101010110 0100111101 0101011101 1011010011 1011100111 11010111001 0001011111 1011010001 1101011001 11001010001 01011101001 1111111111 0100110101 0101010101 1001111111 101001101 01010000101 11010011101 11011011010 1101010101 10111101001 110111001001 1101010101 1101010111 11011110001 1001010101 0101111001 0101010101 10010100011 10110010101 110101 1111 0111010101 1001110101 1110011101 1101000111 1001011101 1111010111 0101010111 11011011101 11010100111 0100010101 11001010101 011001101 0111010111 01010100100 011111 1101 0111110100 0101111001 1001011001 0101011111 1101010101 1101011101 11010010111 0101110101 1101011101 011011000 1101010101 1001000101 1101011001 10011010101 1101001011 0011110100 1101010101 1101100101 1001011101 010010011101 111100101 1001010101 1011011101 1111111100 0111010101 1101010011 0101010100 1101110111 11010111100 1101111101 01010011101 10001011100 1100101010101 1101011001 11001110111 0101010111 11110011111 1001010101 11110010111 1101110111 1011010011 1101100101 1101110101 0111100001 0101010011 0101010101 0101011011 0101110101 1111010001 10110111101 1101111111 0101000111 1111001101 11100100101 0111 110011 0111010111 01110101001 1011010111 11111100111 1101011101 1101011101 01011111001 0101011001 1001010001 100010000101 11010101010 1101010101 0100010101 0011011101 0101010101 1011011101 0100110101 1101011101 11010100011 010100110 1001010101 110101010010 11111100111 010111101 1101000101 0110011101 11010101001 11010010111 1011010100 0111001101 10001010100 1101000101 1001 111101 0101010111 00110000111 0111101101 1101011111 0101000101 10101011100 1101010101 1101000101 1101010111 0101010101 10110101001 111001001 1001010111 1111001101 10101110011 01010101011 0011010101 0101110101 0111010101 1101010111 1101010101 1001010101 0101011111 0101010011 01001011111 0101110101 1001010101 1 110101 11001010101 010101 11000101 0100111 1101001 11010101 011101010 011101010 1101010101 0101110101 1101010 111101010 0101010101 11010101 01010111 1101000101 10111010001 11001011111 1 10011001 110101101 1010101 01010101 1011101 100100101 1101 0101011111 101101011111 1 1001101 11010111 11011101 110101 11111111 011100101 11010101 100101001 110111 110100111 11000101 10111100101 1010101 1111111 0101011101 01001001 11010101 11010101 1111111101 1101111001
  • Amount of stanzas: 8
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 2118
  • Average number of words per stanza: 368
  • Amount of lines: 409
  • Average number of symbols per line: 40 (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; and, of, his, to, he, her, thy, how are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words their, to, he, of, that, howl, her, see, the, now are repeated.

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