This is an analysis of the poem A Tale Of The Miser And The Poet that begins with:

A WIT, transported with Inditing,
Unpay'd, unprais'd, yet ever Writing; ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: XabbaaccbbddeeaaffffffggaaXbff aaddggbXhh bbgghhbb aaffXbggddddddddiijj bX Xbk kllaaaXXlljj aabbbbhhbbllmmhhll
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 30,10,8,20,2,3,12,18,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 010100100 10010011010 11111101 11010101 110111010 110100010 111101110 100101010 110101010 010101010 01000111 11010001 11010111 11010101 110101010 110100010 010111110 1100101010 010001110 011111110 110101110 110111010 111111010 100101110 110101010 110111110 1110011100 111111010 101111010 110011010 1101110110 111101010 110100010 1101101010 111101110 110101010 11011111 010111011 110101101 110111100 1101011 11111101 111111110 110101010 010100110 011110010 111101110 110101110 110111110 110111010 0101001010 111101010 111101100 110111010 111111110 1101000010 110100111 111101110 10110101 11010001 111010001 01010001 110101001 10111101 01110111 11011101 110101111 010101011 111101010 011101010 100101010 111101110 1110010 110011110 1011001010 111101010 11111101 11110101 11110111 110101100 011001110 10110111 01110011 101101011 111100011 110101010 111111010 011111010 011100010 110101010 1101001010 10110101 11010111 111100010 110111110 01110001 10010101 1100101 11111101 111110010 111101011 101100011 110111110
  • Amount of stanzas: 8
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 485
  • Average number of words per stanza: 83
  • Amount of lines: 103
  • Average number of symbols per line: 37 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; with, and, or, you are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words with, when are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines you, 'em are repeated).

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