This is an analysis of the poem In Imitation Of Dr. Swift : The Happy Life Of A Country Parson that begins with:
Parson, these things in thy possessing
Are better than the Bishop's blessing.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbXXccddaXcceeffeeggcX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 24,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 101101010 110101010 011110001 11010111 010111010 111101010 100110111 11110101 01100111 100100111 010001010 010001110 01001111 10111011 11010011 01010101 11111101 10011101 11111101 11111010 11110101 10110011 11001111 110111011
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 899
- Average number of words per stanza: 155
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, his are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word a is repeated.
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