This is an analysis of the poem Dignissimo Suo Amico Doctori Wittie. De Translatione Vulgi that begins with:

Nempe sic innumero succrescunt agmine libri,
Saepia vix toto ut jam natet una mari.... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXXXaXXXXXaXXXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 18,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1110001001010 1011011101010 101001001010 1101001101010 11010001001100010 1001001010010 1001010101000010 1001010010 101001010100100 10100110010 1101001010100 100110110010 1101001010110 1111001001010 11110101000010 10010011011 1101010110100 1110010111110
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 754
  • Average number of words per stanza: 114
  • Amount of lines: 18
  • 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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