This is an analysis of the poem To His Noble Friend, Mr. Richard Lovelace, Upon His Poems that begins with:

Sir,
Our times are much degenerate from those ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: Xaaaabbaaccccaadd aaaaeefXggXXXdd hhddggddccddfXiijj
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 17,15,18,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1 1111010001 1111011101 1101010001 11110010011 1101110111 0001011101 1111110101 1101011101 1001010101 0101011101 1101110101 1101110101 1101101101 1011010101 11010010101 1011001101 0101010001 0111011101 1101011100 01010010001 011000101 1011000111 1111100101 1001011000 1101111101 1111010001 1101100001 1100010100 1111010101 1101010011 1101010101 1101010101 1111110101 111101101 1111100101 1111010101 1111010101 1101001101 1011000110 110100111101 1011100110 1101000111 1111110111 1101110111 0101100111 1101010101 0111011111 1101110101 0100110011
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 713
  • Average number of words per stanza: 124
  • Amount of lines: 50
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; hand, that are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word whose is repeated.

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