This is an analysis of the poem Satire Ii:The Country Mouse And The Town Mouse that begins with:

MY mother's maids, when they did sew and spin,
They sang sometime a song of the field mouse, ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcbaXadaXadacacecefXfdfdedegXXhghdhdidXeXeieXbibjbcijikikgkgagadadfXflflclcjmjcjcXcbimiXiccccicininfdfdfdbdb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 109,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1101110111 1111010011 11010100111101 1111010101 110101011 0101011101 1101010001 1111110101 1111111001 0100110111 1101001101 1111011111 0101111111 1101110001 1101110111 1111010101 1011010001 1010011100100 1101110101 011111111 0101111110 01011100111 10110110111 1101111111 111100100001 01011101110 1101110111 1111101101 1111010001 11011101010 110101101011 1111100101 0010011101 101110101 0101010111 1001101111 10011011011 01011111101 01001110101 1000101110101110 1101110111 100001110101010 1100110101 0111110111 1101011101 11001010110 1001110101 1100010111 0111111101 1001111101 001101101 1101111100101 111010101 1110101001 0101111101 0111111001 0101111101 1001111101 1001011101 110011110111 1011010101 1111010001 0101110101 1101010001 110100110011 1101011101 011111110101010 1101110111 1110110110 1101101001 1111010101 1101101111 1111111111 11111111011 100110111 1001011101 1101101001 1001101111111010 1111111111 0101110111 01100111101 1011101011 0110110111 1111110111 010111010101110 111110111111 11011101010 1110010111 1111100110 0111111001 01011111010 1010010101 11011001010 1111101001 0111111101 1111010011 1011001011 1011111101 1110001111 1111010111 1101111101 100111001110 1101111000 1101110001 1101010111 10110110111 1111110101 1001111011 0110110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 5244
  • Average number of words per stanza: 962
  • Amount of lines: 109
  • Average number of symbols per line: 47 (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; she, and, not, to, her, no, that, for are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words then, in, and, the are repeated.

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