This is an analysis of the poem To Samuel E. Sewall And Harriet W. Sewall Of Melrose that begins with:
OLOR ISCANUS queries: 'Why should we
Vex at the land's ridiculous miserie?'... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXaabbXbaacbbcdd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1010010111 11010100100 1101100111 0101010101 1001110100 1111110111 1011010100 1111001101 1101000101 0101111111 01011111101 0101110111 1100010111 11001010101 0011110111 011111010001
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 706
- Average number of words per stanza: 126
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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.
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