This is an analysis of the poem An Answer To A Copy Of Verses Sent Me To Jersey that begins with:

As to a northern people (whom the sun
Uses just as the Romish church has done ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaaabbccddeeffXcggcchhiieXjXkkiikkeebbXbeejjccccdd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 50,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 1001010101 1011010111 0101001101 1101011111 0101011001 1100111101 1011010011 0101111111 10101011111 1111100101 1111110011 0101010101 100111111 1111010111 101110 1011110101 1101111011 1001010001 0101111110 0101110001 11010111101 0111010101 101101001010 100111110010 01011101101 11011011000 1100010101 11101001101 10111110001 1111010101 11010110011 01010000101 1011010101 00110010111 1101010111 011001010111 11010111101 1101001101 11111110100 1110110011 110111110001 1101010101 1101111101 11011100101 0111101100 11010000111 11010111001 1111110111 01000010101 111011111011
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 2249
  • Average number of words per stanza: 419
  • Amount of lines: 50
  • 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 are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word that is repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines it is repeated).

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