This is an analysis of the poem Samuel Sewall that begins with:
Samuel Sewall, in a world of wigs,
Flouted opinion in his personal hair;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcd adaX XXXe cXcX dada fefX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 101000101 10010001001 1100111101 1001110101 1001011101 1110010111 01010111010 11011100001 11010101110 0100110101 0101110011 1101010100 1111110010 101010100010 0100010101 10010010011 1000110010101 1001011001 1101010101 10010010010 1101110001 11111100101 010100111001 11110000101 11001101010 11010110110 10100010001 101101010100
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 197
- Average number of words per stanza: 35
- Amount of lines: 28
- 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; in, and are repeated.
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