This is an analysis of the poem To His Friends Of Christ-Church Upon The Mislike Of The Marriage Of The Arts Acted At Woodstock that begins with:
But is it true, the Court mislik't the Play,
That Christ-Church and the Arts have lost the day; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXXbXbbcXccXccddXbeeXe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 23,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1001011001 1111011101 1101011110 1101011101 1111011101 1100110100 1011010001 1111010111 1111010101 1101001101 11011111001 1111111100 10101010111 110101010111111100101 1111000111 1101111101 1111111101 1111010101 1101101101 10011110100 1111011101 1111010100 1111110101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1085
- Average number of words per stanza: 191
- Amount of lines: 23
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (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; some is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word that is repeated.
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