This is an analysis of the poem Marlburyes Fate that begins with:
When Londons fatal bills were blown abroad
And few but Specters travel'd on the road,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXabbbbaaXabbccddeeffggXaddffaahhbbfddfiijjkkaaddlmkkaaggbbiillaannXXbbddeeddddmmaaddaaaadfhh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 94,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1101010101 1111010101 11110011100 0010110001 1110011001 0101011001 1101000101 0101000100 1011001101 01001000111 01011100101 1001010101 1110011101 1001010101 0101001111 1101011101 0111110101 0111110101 0100110111 0101011101 1101010111 0111110111 11100111010 11011101010 10100010111 0110101101 10011101101 1101001101 11010100101 1101011111 1100001101 11010010001 1011001101 10010101011 1110000101 1101011111 1011111101 1111011101 1101010111 1111111111 01001101101 0101110101 1101010111 0101110101 111101101 1011010101 110101100101 0101011111 0101000101 1111011101 11011101110 0100010001 1100100101 1101010101 1100010111 0101110101 111101101 0101010110 1101011101 0101000101 11010101010 01010101010 01010101110 11110011010 1101010111 1011000101 1001010001 0101010101 1011010101 0101010101 1001011111 1011000101 11010011101 1011010111 1100010101 01000111001 0101010011 01010110111 1001010111 0010000001 1100100101 1111010111 1111010101 1101100101 0001010001 1101011101 1001001001 1011010111 1101011101 10111100101 1111011101 1101110101 1111010011 11000100111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 4067
- Average number of words per stanza: 731
- Amount of lines: 94
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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; of, with, one, and, to, some are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word one is repeated.
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