This is an analysis of the poem A Fit Of Rhyme Against Rhyme that begins with:

Rhyme, the rack of finest wits,
That expresseth but by fits... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabccbddeffeggbccbhhXhheiidffdggeffejjkggkbbceeXhhcllcbbXmmc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 60,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1010101 1100111 101 10100110 100100010 111 10101110 10111010 001 101001010 10101010 101 1110111 10100111 1110 10100010 11001010 1110 1000101 1011101 1100 1010101 1010101 111 10010101 1010011 110 1010101 1010101 1010 111010010 10110010 111 1010101 01110101 111 10101110 10101110 001 100101 1010011 101 1010011 1110101 0110 1011101 1111101 101 1110101 1011100 1010 11100101 1110101 1010 1011011 0110001 1100 1010011 1010101 1010
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1577
  • Average number of words per stanza: 275
  • Amount of lines: 60
  • Average number of symbols per line: 25 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words not, scarce, still are repeated.

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