This is an analysis of the poem A Letter To Doctor Ingelo, Then With My Lord Whitlock, Ambassador From The Protector To The Queen Of Sweden that begins with:

Quid facis Arctoi charissime transfuga coeli,
Ingele, proh sero cognite, rapte cito?... full text

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  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 134,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1101010010010 1011010110 11010010010010 1101101101010 11010011100100 110010110110 110100010101010 1001010101 11001010010100 10100010110 1001101011010 11010101010 11011011010010 1001011010 110100100010100 111010101010 11010010100100 10110010110 11010100101 1001101010110 1110110100110 10010101010 101010101010010 101010100101 10010010100010 11100011101 1001001010010 10010101010 101001010001 10010010010 1011010101011 11110101010 1101001001010 1110100101 11001011001010 101100111010 111000111100 100011100010 1001100110100010 11010011110 10010010010010 01101000010 111001000010010 11010110110 110010010010010 100110010101 1000100110010100 110100101010 100100100110 1101001001010 111001001001 10001010001 1001101111010 111100110010 110100010100010 110001001010 11010101010 1101110010 100100101010 10110010110 111001001001 10010100010 10010110100 10010110110 11010101010100 100101001 1010101010100 1001100101010 110011100001010 11011101010 11010010100010 1001010101 01010010001010 110010101010 1000101010010 10100110110 100110101000100 10010111010 101101010100 111001001010 1011101001 1010001001001 100011100100 11011101010 100110101010 10001001010 110101001010 110100101010 10110010010100 110010101010 1110010010100 100110100010 1011010010010 101101101 1101001001010 1010111010 101010110010100 110010101010 1100100101010 11000101010 110100101010 10100101010 101000100110010 10110101010 1011010100110 10110101010 110010101010 10011101010 10101010110 1101010010 1111010001100 11010010010 101101010001 1100101001010 11010101001010 10010110010 1101001010010 110101101010 100101010100 10100101010 1010011010010 11010100010 11010010010010 110001100010 1011001001000100 110100110010 111100100001010 11001110011 111101001000100 1011001010010 11100100100010 11001001 110100100100010 101001001
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 5576
  • Average number of words per stanza: 800
  • Amount of lines: 134
  • Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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