This is an analysis of the poem The Philanthropic Society that begins with:

INSCRIBED TO THE DUKE OF LEEDS.
When Want, with wasted mien and haggard eye,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: a bbccddcceeffggbhiijjaaccaXaakkaaccccllggccmmaanneeooXkeeppiillnnXlnnaabbkkaabbmmccccbhkkbbkkaaccccnneeccadbbccbXqqkkppkkbbkkllccaabbaannllkkccggbbccggeebbnncceebbnnccrreeffkkccccppnnssggccggppccee
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,196,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 0100101 1101011101 0101000101 11001110101 1101000101 1101010101 1001010101 1111010111 1111001101 11001011111 1011100101 1101000111 0101010101 1101011101 1101110101 0101010111 1101111100 11010101110 11111101010 1101010111 11010010111 1101110111 0101110101 1111010011 0111010011 1111010011 11011101100 1111100101 1011010101 1101111101 1101111100 110100111001 0101111101 11110000101 1101011101 1011110101 1101011111 1011011111 0101010101 11110010101 1011010101 11110100101 11001010101 01011000011 1100100100101 1101011101 1101111101 1101110001 1101011101 1011010111 1101110101 1111001101 01110011101 11010010101 1101100101 10101011101 01101010101 01001000111 01001011011 11001111010 01011110010 1111010101 01010001111 1111110011 0101111101 1101010101 1111110101 1111111101 1101010111 1101010101 0101010111 1100110111 1111010101 1111111101 1100010101 0111010101 11010101001 0101011101 1101010101 01001010110 1011010101 0110011101 11110011001 1111100101 1101010101 1101111101 1101010100 11001110101 1111010001 1100010101 0100010101 1100110101 011101100101 1101010100 0101010101 1000110101 0101101001 11011100101 1101000101 1110110101 0101010101 01001110101 1101100101 1111010101 0101010101 1111001101 11010011101 0101010101 0111010101 1101010101 100100011101 0101010101 010010111000 1101011101 0101011111 1101010101 11011010111 11010111101 1001111101 1101010101 0101010101 1001011101 0011000111 1101010101 1101001001 11101011111 1101010101 1101010001 1101010101 11010011101 1101001100 1111010101 010101110101 11001011101 0111100101 0111111111 1101110101 0111110101 1101011101 0101010101 0101110111 01001110101 11001011101 1100110101 1111011101 1101010101 11001010101 11010101001 1011010111 01010111111 01011101001 0111000101 1101010001 01110011101 01111101011 1101010111 11011111011 1011010111 1111011111 11001110101 11111000101 1101011001 1101010101 1111010101 1101110101 1101010001 1101010101 1111110011 01001001101 1101010101 1111111101 0101110111 1001010101 1111110101 11101010111 1101111001 0111010101 1101010101 0101000101 1111011101 01010101101 1100010101 1100110101 11011100001 1011110101 1101010101 1011000101 11011100101 01010001001 11000100101 10010010101 1101010111 1101110101 1100010111 1001010001 1111010101 1111010111
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 4386
  • Average number of words per stanza: 763
  • Amount of lines: 197
  • 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; to, and, thy, or, of are repeated.

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

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