This is an analysis of the poem Fleckno, An English Priest At Rome that begins with:

Oblig'd by frequent visits of this man,
Whom as Priest, Poet, and Musician,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbaacdeeffggeefXaahiXfffaaiXiaffffccjjXjeXXfaaXXjkbXffeeaaffaalliijjmmnnbbXeXfaaooffeeccXXooppjkiiffffccffffkkeEqqggiioofXddrrXfaaaaqXXjehjjkkiijXaannooccffeeeXoogXcEdoo
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 171,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 0111010001 111101010 1111010001 1101010111 1101010101 0011000101 1100111101 1101010100 1111010111 1101011011 11011110111 1011110101 11101010111 1011010101 1001111101 1101111101 1101111101 1101011000 101100110 01001110101 0101011010 1011010111 1111010110 0111001001 1001001101 101100011 1001010001 0101000101 1110101001 0101011010 1111011101 010111111 110101011 1111111001 1010100101 1111101001 1111000011 1011100110 0101001101 1101110100 11100101010 10010100101 1101001101 010001001100 1101110101 1100011101 1101011111 1110010101 1101110111 0101010101 1101111111 1101110011 1101011111 11100110100 1111000111 1011011100 110101101 1111010101 1111011111 1110110110 0101010101 1111111111 010100001 1101011101 0101101101 01001000001 1011010101 1101010001 11110000101 1100110101 101100101 0111010101 111011101 1101001001 1011111101 1101100101 11011111000 1101010101 1011001101 0101011101 1101111101 1010010111 1111001001 0101010001 1101110101 1111011011 1111011111 1001010101 1101011111 1101011101 1101010110 1101010110 0101111111 1011011101 1101011101 1011100101 1101011111 0101111101 0111010101 1101111101 0110110101 1101111111 0111011101 1011001011 1111010111 1111110001 1010000111 0111010101 01011000101 0111010001 1001111101 1111001101 1001011111 0111011101 0011011011 1111110101 1101111101 1100010111 1001110101 1010010101 1111010111 1111110101 1110011001 1101001111 1111010100 1101011100 1101001011 1101010001 0101011110 1101110101 1111001111 1111011101 1101110001 1111000101 11001111011 1101010101 1101110110 1111011011 01110111010 111111110 1101011101 0101010001 0101011101 1011010011 1101001111 1000001001 11010010111 1011010110 10011101001 10010100001 1001010101 1111100011 1111110111 1101001011 1101001111 0111111011 1001010101 1101011111 1001010101 101100100110 0101011011 1100110000 1101010111 1111000101 01110010101 1011010101 1101110111 0111011101 1111000100 1101010111 0100110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 7044
  • Average number of words per stanza: 1310
  • Amount of lines: 171
  • Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
  • 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; nor, and, he, his, to, of, you, who are repeated.

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