This is an analysis of the poem The Poor Man's Lamb that begins with:
NOW spent the alter'd King, in am'rous Cares,
The Hours of sacred Hymns and solemn Pray'rs: ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXaabbaaccddeeffaaaaggeeggggffXh ddff aaaggfff hheeggaafeeggaXhhaaffbaiijjXbggkkaaaa bbffhhhccccggaXllXgkk aahhh iihXffaadddffggkkaakkeeehhba bbffggaaXiddggeeee aafXjjgg hhggddd hheXhh ccaaiijj Xaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 32,4,8,37,21,5,28,18,8,7,6,8,3,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1101010101 01001011101 0101010101 1001001101 0101011101 1001010101 10011100101 10010101010 0101010101 111101101 1001110101 11010010101 10010100101 111101110101 1111010101 1100101101 1100100101 1001010100 1101110111 1001100101 1101010101 0101010101 0101110111 1111110101 101111110010 01010100010 1011110001 1110110101 1001110101 11011100101 01111101010 1101001100101 1111011101 1011110101 0111111101 1101001101 1111010101 10001010101 1011010101 0101110111 0101110111 1011010101 1001110001 110101110101 1101011101 1111010101 1010111101 1111110001 0101010101 1101011101 0101111111 0101111111 11010 00101 0111101101 1101010101 1101100011 1001110001 01111101001 11010100011 100101110101 1001010101 1101010101 1101010111 0101011111 0101010101 0111010111 0011101111 0101110101 1101011111 1101010001 1101101111 1001011101 1101110101 1101010101 1101111101 1101010101 0111011101 110101110101 1001110111 0111101101 1110010101 0111110101 1101000101 0101000101 0101110011 1111010101 1100110111 0111111110 1010110101 0100010101 0101110001 1101000101 1111110001 1111010011 1110010111 1101110011 1111010101 10101111010 1011001101 1011011101 1101110001 1111111101 11011010101 1101010111 1111010111 00011010101 0101010001 1101011111101 1101111111 0101110101 1111010111 11000010111 0111010100 0111110101 1001001111 1101010101 1101110101 1101011101 1101010111 0100110101 1011010101 0101011111 1101010101 1001010101 1111010101 1101011101 1101100101 1101110001 11101010101 1111110101 1111010101 11110011111 1111110101 1001011101 1101111111 110101010101 101011101 1101010111 1101010101 1111010001 1101011101 0101000111 1010111010 0101000101 1101111101 1001010101 11001100101 1001100101 1011011111 1111010111 1111010101 100111010101 0101010101 1101010001 1101110101 1101010110 1001100101 11111101001 1111110101 1111111111 1101001101 1111011101 0110110001 10100110101 1101111111 1011110111 110101010101 1001110101 1001010101 0110111101 1111111110 1001010101 1101110111 1111111101 1101110101 1111010101 1111000101 11111011111 0110010111 1101010111 1011011011 1111011101 1111010101
- Amount of stanzas: 13
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 648
- Average number of words per stanza: 115
- Amount of lines: 189
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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; to, for, and, his, it, my, cou'd, thy, as, he are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words that, the, my are repeated.
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