This is an analysis of the poem Epistle To Dr. Arbuthnot that begins with:
Shut, shut the door, good John! fatigu'd, I said,
Tie up the knocker, say I'm sick, I'm dead.... full text
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbaa aaccddee ffggXhiihhjj kkllaaddggaahh iihhbX aagX mmiX hXXXhhbXXXgXfX kkbbgg hhnnggdd oonnaappiihhffffbbaaoobbbb hhaaXX bbdXddaXpp iieeaaqqff bbhhaaffaagX Xgeeoobbbb aaXgbbXXhheehhff ppaaggiiffbbkkaabbqq hhhhiihhXfnnaaaahhhhdd hhaabbkkhhiiaaXb ookka
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,8,12,14,6,4,4,14,6,8,26,6,10,10,12,10,16,20,22,16,18,12,10,12,22,29,26,8,20,18,14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1101010111 1101010101 0111011101 1101110011 10011110011 1101110101 1111111111 1111011111 1111010101 11010011101 1101010101 1111110101 1001110101 1001111101 0101010101 010100101 011000010101 1101011101 0111011101 0101110101 1101010101 0101010111 1011010101 10001111101 1101010101 1101110011 1011101101 01110101101 1111010101 1111101111 01001010101 0111011111 1111011101 1101011011 0101010101 1001011101 1101010011 0101011101 1111100101 0101011111 10111110101 1111010101 1111110111 0111010101 11110001110 01010111011 1101010101 1101010111 1001011101 11010111010 100100111010 01111111110 1101110101 11010111100 1101010101 01010011010 01010101111 01011000010 1111110101 0111110011 101010111110 110111010101 1011011111 1101010110 1101110001 1111011111 1001011101 11111111110 11110101001 1001010101 0101001101 1101110111 1011110101 1101010011 1110110101 1101110011 1101111101 1101001111 1001010101 1100111111 01111100111 0101011111 1101010101 1101110101 1101010111 1101110101 1111000101 1110010101 1101011111 1101110101 0101110001 01001010101 10001000101 1001010101 1111110111 1011111001 1111010111 0101001101 1111010101 1011010101 1101111101 1101110001 1111111111 11111110111 0111000111 0001011101 0111001100 0111111101 1101010101 1101010101 1011101101 1101010111 0111010101 11010110100 1110110111 1111011111 1011110111 11011111110 1101010111 1101110101 1111010001 1101010101 1111011111 1101110001 1011110101 1101110111 1101110101 11001010101 1111010101 1101110101 0111011111 0111010111 0100101111 1101010101 1111010001 1101111111 1101010101 1101110111 0101010101 1101101101 1111110101 0101011101 1011011101 100110111010 0101010111 10010100110 1011011110 1101010101 1101011101 0101010101 1101010101 1101010111 11010101001 1101011101 0101110101 1111010101 0111010101 0111011101 1101011110 1111010111 1011110101 1101010011 11110101110 01010101010 1111111111 1110111100 1111010111 0101010111 1001000101 0111111111 0111110111 1101010111 0101010101 1111110111 0111011101 1111010001 1101110100 0111011111 0111010001 1101011101 1101010001 1101111101 1111011111 1111011101 11110111010 11110101010 11110110001 0011001111 11110110101 1111110101 1011111111 1111000111 10111011110 1101011101 1011011101 1101101101 1101110101 1101110101 1101010101 1111110101 1011010101 1011010101 1001110101 1101110101 0101011001 0101100101 1011110001 1101011101 1101010101 1101000101 1111010101 1100010101 1111010110 1111010001 1111110101 11001010100 1101010101 1101110101 1111000111 1111011011 10110110011 1111110111 1101110111 0101010111 1101010101 0111011111 1101011111 0100110111 1101110011 0101011001 110101011 11110111001 1011010111 1011110101 0110110101 1011010101 0101110101 1101011101 1101010101 1101011111 1111000101 1111011101 0101010101 1101011101 1001110111 1001010101 1101110001 1101011101 1111011111 1101010101 1101010101 1101011101 1101110101 1111010111 1001111101 1111111111 1101010101 0101110101 0111010101 11110101011 1111111111 1111011101 0101010011 1111111111 0101011101 0101010011 1111111101 1111011111 1101010011 1101000111 1111111101 1111110101 1111111001 1111011101 1111011011 11010100011 1101010110 1101010111 1111010001 0101101101 1101111111 1101011111 1001111001 1101110111 1101010001 1001110101 1111010101 0111110001 1101110101 1101011101 111111010101 1101110101 1111010001 1101000101 1101000111 1101010001 11101110011 1011111101 1001110111 1111011101 1110010001 11100011101 0111110111 11110011001 1101011101 101111011 11011011101 11010101011 1111010101 0101011111 1101010101 1111110101 1111010001 01000011111 0101010001 1101110101 1001010011 1101010101 1101010101 1111010101 0111011111 1111111100 0111101110 1111110111 1101110100 01001110101 0101100101 111101010101 1101011101 10101010101 0101010101 1011111101 1111111101 1101001101 1101111001 1111001101 1011111101 11010011101 1101011101 1101011101 11011100001 1111110101 11010010101 0101010101 0101110001 1101011101 0101010101 0101010101 0110011101 01010111100 10101110101 0101010101 01001010101 0111111111 0101110101 0101010111 01110101001 1011110101 1111010101 11010101011 01001010101 0111010111 1011110001 010010101001 1001011001 0101001101 1101011101 1111010111 1011110111 0101010001 1001110001 1101111101 1101011111 1101001101 1101111101 01010110001 1111110001 1101111101 11100110100 1011011101 0101010111 1111010101 0101011101 1101011101 1011010011 1001110001 0101010101 0101110101 1101010101 11011101111 1101110001 1011010011 11001000101 1001010101 0011100101 1111111101 1111110001 1111110101 1101010001 11010101001 1011011101 0111010101 0111010101 1111011101 1101111111 1111010101 0110010101 1101010101 0101001001 01001010101 1101110101 0101010101 1101110001 1111010101 1101110111 0111010101 1111111101 1011000111 1111010101
- Amount of stanzas: 31
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 625
- Average number of words per stanza: 110
- Amount of lines: 419
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (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; they, to, and, or, of, it, i, ', still, his, no, who, some, for, my, sporus, now, nor, not, he, that, let, in are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words a, if, the, still, i, to, each, who, or, dryden, may, not, that, his are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ' is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of Epistle To Dr. Arbuthnot;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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