This is an analysis of the poem To The Immortal Memory And Friendship Of That Noble Pair, Sir Lucius Cary And Sir H. Morison that begins with:

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  • Rhyme scheme: A bbaaccaadd A eeccddccff D gcgchhchhcdd A ggaacciijj A kkddaaddbb D hhllkkmccmbb A ffbbffccff A aaddllffaa D ccccXnoXXoaa A bbggnnggdd A ffXXddhhaa D dpdpddhaahaa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,10,1,10,1,12,1,10,1,10,1,12,1,10,1,10,1,12,1,10,1,10,1,12,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 01 11001001 11010111 1001010001 0101010101 110101 111111 11110001 11110111 1101011111 0101110101 0101 01010111 01010011 1111010101 1101010111 110111 0111001 11011001101 11111101 1111110001 1111010111 01 1101010101 1101 111010101 0101 111101 111100 111110011 101111 110011 10010111 1111011111 1100111010 01 110111001 11110101 1101111101 1101010101 110011 110111 010100101 11011101 1111011101 11010101011 0101 01110011 11011111 1101000111 00110010101 1101001 110001 11110111 01010101 1101010101 0110010001 01 1111111101 1100 01110100101 0111 010101 011101 1111101101 111111 010111 01010111 1101011111 1101011101 01 00110101 01111100 1101111101 0101111111 010001 010101 11011111 010111001 0101011101 1011011010 0101 11010111 11110101 0101010111 1111110011 110011 100101 01110101 01111101 1111011101 1111010011 01 1011001111 0101 1101011111 0101 001100 1001010 01010101010 010111 10100 110110010 1111100001 11010011111 01 11110101 11010111 0101011111 11010111101 010101 110101 01110111 10011101 1101010100 1111110111 0101 01110101 11110001 11010111010 11010100010 11101 010001 11000111 11011111 1001010011 1101010100 01 1101010101 1111 0011110001 1101 111011 111111 1001110101 100111 011101 11010101 110111101 1111110100
  • Amount of stanzas: 24
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 194
  • Average number of words per stanza: 37
  • Amount of lines: 163
  • Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • 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; of, and, by, or are repeated.

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

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