This is an analysis of the poem To His Worthy Friend Doctor Witty Upon His Translation Of The Popular Errors that begins with:

Sit further, and make room for thine own fame,
Where just desert enrolles thy honour'd Name... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccddXXeeccffggeXffXhiihhjjkkbbeeiiXh
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 40,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 1101111111 111010011001 0001001001 1001011101 1001011101 1101011111 1001011101 1101010111 101101111 01110111010 1101010101 1001010101 1001011101 1111110001 0011011101 1111010111 1011011101 110101011 1111011101 1101011100 1101011101 1011011101 01010110000 10110001010 01110101001 0101010101 0101001111 1001000101 1011110101 1001010111 1101110101 1101110101 1101010011 1001010111 1101011101 1101011111 1011011101 1101111111 11010101100 11001010111
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1722
  • Average number of words per stanza: 309
  • Amount of lines: 40
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • 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; he, that, her, i are repeated.

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

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