This is an analysis of the poem On The University Carrier Who Sickn'D In The Time Of His Vacancy, Being Forbid To Go To London, By Reason Of The Plague that begins with:

Here lies old Hobson, Death hath broke his girt,
And here alas, hath laid him in the dirt,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbbbccddeeXbaaXd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 18,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 1111011101 1101111001 11011011001 1110011101 1101010101 1111111111 1111010111 1010110101 1101110101 1101010101 1101011111 1101010111 1111110101 0011000100 10101111111 1101110101 0101110101 10111110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 816
  • Average number of words per stanza: 155
  • Amount of lines: 18
  • Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; here, his are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.

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