This is an analysis of the poem Content And Rich that begins with:

I dwell in Grace's court,
Enriched with Virtue's rights;... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcb aded faga haaa iXXc jheh bjXj ekck Xflf ajij gjgj kfiX Xbfb cfaX lfXfXjili
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 110101 010101 11111110 111101 010111 0100101 11011101 110101 110011 010111 11010001 110011 011101 110101 11111101 111101 110111 110010 110100110 011010 111111 110011 110111000 111001 111101 010101 11011001 010101 110101 011101 11111101 11101 110101 110111 00010101 010111 110101 110111 1101011 000101 110101 010111 00110001 111101 110011 111111 11111101 110110 110111 110101 11110011 111101 011101 110101 11010101 010110 110101 111101 11011101 110101 110101 111101 11110101 110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 16
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 111
  • Average number of words per stanza: 22
  • Amount of lines: 64
  • Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; my is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words my, that are repeated.

    The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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