This is an analysis of At A Vatican Exercise (Excerpt) by John Milton.
The Latin speeches ended, the English thus began
Hail native language, that by sinews weak…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: Xaabbccaaddeeeeffggeeggeeddhhhbffccidhhgggghhbhffeeii
- Stanza lengths: 53,
- Metre: 0101010010101 1101011101 11111000101 1101010101 11000111101 1011000101 11110011001 1101111101 1111101101 11001111101 11111101111 1110010001 0111110101 1001011011 0101010111 1111011111 1011011111 11110111010 10111111010 1111011101 1111100001 11110111010 110101101010 1111011101 1101011101 1100111101 1111001101 1111010111 1100010101 1111001001 1100110011 1111111101 0111110011 1101010111 0101011111 1011110100 11010100111 10001100101 0101010111 01010001010 11010101010 11010011110 1101110110 1111111101 01010100101 1101011101 1101000101 1101111101 1101100011 0101111001 1110011101 11000100100 0101110100
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 53
Repeated words/phrases
thee, i, to, of, and
Anaphora
and
Epiphora
thee