This is an analysis of the poem Epistles To Several Persons: Epistle Iv, To Richard Boyle, that begins with:

Est brevitate opus, ut currat sententia, neu se
Impediat verbis lassas onerantibus aures: ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXXXXXXbbaaccddeeff ggaXhhggcXccddiiaahhXaffaa ffccXXjj ggXaffggdd hhhhdddd hhcckk ddiieeii aaaabbXfgg ggaadddXgg bXffaaeeddgggghheellddggXXee eeaadd ggggggii fXeefXbbaa hhccXXaaffmmaajjhh ggdd fXgg hhcc cchhggkkeeXffffggggeeggdd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 19,26,8,10,8,6,8,10,10,28,6,8,10,18,4,4,4,25,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 0110010110100111 10010101000010 110100110101100 100101010011 1000101001001 10001100 101101111 1101010101 0111011101 0011010011 0101011111 1101111111 1011010101 1111010101 1111110111 1101011101 1111110111 1111110111 1011011101 11010101110 10011101110 1111011101 1101010010100 1100010101 1111110001 1101010101 1101111101 0101011101 1101011000 11111100101 1101010101 1111111101 1101010101 1101001111 1011010101 111101101 1101000101 0111001101 1111110101 1111000101 1101010101 1101110101 1011100101 1011011001 1011111101 1111001101 0101110111 1010110101 11010010111 0111000101 1111010101 0110101101 1101010101 0101110101 0101010101 0101010101 0111010001 1101010101 1101110101 1111010001 1101010001 1111110001 0101010101 0101000101 1101010111 11101010101 11010010001 10010101001 1101110101 11110110101 1111111101 1101010101 1101110001 01001010101 1101000101 1011111101 0101010101 0101011101 1101001011 01100010111 1101110001 1111110001 1111110101 1011000101 1011001101 0110011101 0101001001 0101010111 1101010101 0101010101 1001100001 01010101010 0101100111 100011001101 1111110101 1011111001 1101000101 01001010101 1101010101 0111110101 100100101 1101110101 0101010001 0101010111 1111010101 1101011101 111110111100 1111010101 1101001101 1001010101 1111000111 0100010001 0111001001 1111010111 0101110101 1111010001 01010010011 1101010101 0101000101 0101110101 1101110101 1101000101 1101000101 11111101010 11011101010 0101010101 1101111111 0101010001 1101001111 110011101 1101011101 10001010111 1101010101 1101000101 1001010001 1111000111 1101011101 1111111111 1101011111 0100110001 01110100011 0111011111 1101010111 1111010110 1101011111 1111010101 1101110101 1101010111 1101010101 11010101010 10110101010 1101010101 1101010110 1101010101 1111010111 0101011101 1101010101 1101010101 0101110101 0101110101 1101010111 0001000101 1101010100 0101010101 1111010101 1101110111 1011010101 01110100101 0101111101 0101010101 1100010111 10011101111 1001010101 1111011101 1111110111 1101110101 1001100101 0101101101 0100010001 0101110101 1001111010 1101010111 1101000101 1111110101 1111011111 1101110001 1101010101 0101010101 1101010101 1101011101 1011111001 1101110101 0101010101 1101011111 1101010101 1011010101 1101011101 1101110111 0111010101 1110000101 101000100101 11111010011 1001011101 1101010101 11010000101 1011010101 0101010101 1001101101 11010010101 1101010101 11010011101
  • Amount of stanzas: 19
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 511
  • Average number of words per stanza: 84
  • Amount of lines: 211
  • 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; he, for, and, of, to, or, his, who are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words to, or, no, for, who, bid, these are repeated.

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