This is an analysis of the poem Argument that begins with:

Forsaken Nancy in this Canto,
Brings 'gainst her John a Quo Warranto,...

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXbbccddeeffgXhhfXgg iijjkkhhXifXhhiigXgglllXjjXXcclliXiillhhddiXmmiXddXjllnnoopXjjpplliipphhjceeqqjjhhjjrXccsscchhttjjgrhhhhddhhggbbeeXtggcchhrrnnXhjjnnXiuueeeetXmmnnbbjjtthhggXXfXXccllccpXqqiiaahhccgghhgXhhjjhhggffjXiiiijjeecchXttiiddfijXXitpttiiffiijji
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 20,285,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 010100010 110101100 01110001 01010001 110100010 100101010 11111101 11010101 110100110 110001010 11110101 11010100 111101010 1011001010 11111101 01010011 01010101 11111110 111111010 111111110 1101110111 11011111111 0101010101 0101101101 1111010001 01001010111 10111001001 1111010011 01010011110 11010101100 11110101010 11010110100 101101001 1010110101 01110101010 100011100010 01010111010 11111111000 01011011110 110111100010 11010111010 01010010010 10110100010 010111001100 0101111111 1111010101 100111100100 11011101011 1001010111 1101010101 11010111010 11000101110 011111110110 11111110110 1011010011 0111010101 11010111110 11010111010 1001100101 0110010111 10100101101 010010101 110010111010 110100100100 100101101 0101010101 010011101010 11111110100 11011011111 00110101101 01010111110 11010011010 11111001010 11111111010 1001111101 0111110111 11010111110 10110111010 1111101010 11010101000 1110010011 0111010111 11011111110 11010101110 11011111110 11010111110 0111101010 110010101110 1001011110 111111101010 0011111111 1111010101 1111010111 1101011101 0101010111 1011010101 1001111101 110111001 11110111010 1111010010 110101011 1001110101 1111011001 1111011011 0111011001 1101010110 1111111101 1111110001 1101111111 1101011011 11011111010 01011111010 1011010111 1111010111 1011011101 0101001001 1111000101 1111001101 00110101010 0101000101 0111010011 1111111111 1111010101 1111011101 01011101111 1001110011001 1101010111 1101011111 111101101110 11100100110 1101010101 0101100111 11000110010 11110110010 100111010 1011010111 10111101010 11111111010 0101011111 0011110001 01110111010 10011001010 1111011111 1110010111 1111010101 1101110111 1111010111 0101110101 1101110111 1101010101 1111011101 1001011101 1001101000 11100100101 110101011 1101011101 1111111101 1101010101 1101111101 1111011111 10011111001 10111111010 1110010101 1111011111 11011001001 1101010111 0111100101 1101011101 0101010101 1101101001 1101111001 10010110101 0101010101 1011000011 10111101110 10010101010 00110111110 0100101010 0111001100 1011110101 0111011101 111101111011 11110110010 11010101010 01011011110 11011101010 01110100010 010111010100 010101011100 111111010101 11101101111 1011011011 1111111011 111100101010 11010111010 01101111010 11011101110 11111101010 11111110110 11110111010 11010101010 11011011010 11011101010 10011111010 01010100100 11010101010 010111001010 1110001101 11011110001 0101101101 0101111101 10111110110 1101111101010 01111100100 1111011101 010101101 010100010 1001010101 1100010101 1000010101 1111000101 010010111010 01110101110 110010100110 10010101010 1101010001 0101000101 11111101010 10100110101 1101000101 0100011111 1101010100 1101110001 1001010101 1001011111 11011101011 1111010011 11111111001 0110011101 1101011110 1101010101 111101100101 1011000100 1101011111 1001011101 01010101010 100111011110 1101011101 1101110111 1011001101 1101010101 1111010101 1101110101 01010111010 010010101010 11101111010 010100010010 1111010101 0101010101 0101010111 1101000101 11011010101 1011000101 1111110101 110111101 1101011101 1111011111 11110101010 01111110010 11011101010 01110111010 1101010101 0101100101 11010010101 1001000101 1111010101 01011010111 11011101110 11110001010 11010101101 1111111011 1101011101 1110111101 0101001111 1101010110 11010101010 11110111010 1101010101 1101110101 11010111110 11011101110 0101010111 1101111101 1110000101 1101010100 1010010101 1001110100 11010100011 1011010101 1111011101 010100101 1101111111 1101110111 0101011101 1101111100
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 6876
  • Average number of words per stanza: 1217
  • Amount of lines: 305
  • Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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; in, and, she, with, her, what, thy, had, of, to, my, their, night are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words nor, what, to, or, has, the, one are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines her, him, up, it, faith are repeated).

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  • summary of Argument;
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