This is an analysis of the poem Satyr Iv. The Pretty Gentleman that begins with:
Where Creditors their bankrupt debtors stow
Where men for want of coin to durance go...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaabbbcccddeeXbdd fXbbggbbffggg hhffbbgbccccceeiXgaafffXbiiiaajjhXh ddjXj
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 17,13,35,5,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1100110101 1111010101 111010111 1110011101 1101011101 0111010101 1101111101 1011110011 0100110101 1001010001 110011111 1001010101 1111000101 1101110110 0101010101 0111110101 1110010101 1011110111 1101010010 1111001101 101111101 101011101 111010111 1011010101 1111011101 1101110101 1101011101 1011010001 11010111001 100100011 1101010101 1011111101 1011110110 1111010001 1101011101 110010101 1100100101 1111011111 1011110101 1101110111 1111111101 1111010101 1111111100 1101000101 11010101 1111110101 1010010101010 111101010101 11011011111 011111101 01110101 0101010101 1101011101 001100101 010100100 1101010101 010110011 1011010101 0101010101 1101111101 1001010101 111010111 1101010101 0101010010 0101110101 1101111101 0101000101 0111010001 0111011101 1111000101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 714
- Average number of words per stanza: 135
- Amount of lines: 70
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- 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; where, ye, we, his, he, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words where, the, to are repeated.
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