This is an analysis of the poem The Conference that begins with:

Grace said in form, which sceptics must agree,
When they are told that grace was said by me;... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccddbbddeeffgghhiicchheejjeejjkkccllffaaeekkcchhffjjjjccddbbmmhheebXffbbllnnffhhaacckkjjbboommddlljjccccccjjjjbbddjjeemmnnddbbddjjccddddeehhffeekkeeeejjccbbjjkkbbjjlleeeejjllbbpXjjhheeaaeeccjjmmaannccllbbggjjhhjjccddjjllkkeehhllffccbbnnffjjeejjmmnneek
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 312,12,69,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 1101110101 1111111111 0101010101 1011110111 1111110101 11010010101 1101000111 0110010101 1001100101 1011010101 1111011101 1101000101 01010100001 1111111101 11101111111 1101010101 0111010101 0101000101 1011010101 11001111001 10110110001 1011111101 1101010101 0101010101 1111110101 0111110101 11001010101 1101010101 1001111101 0111111101 1011110101 1011010101 1101000101 1111001111 1101010101 0111110111 1101010101 1011011101 11110010101 0111010111 0101010001 1011011101 11010011001 1111011101 1101110101 10011100001 1101010001 1101001101 1101110101 1101010011 1100111111 1101010101 0001011111 1101010101 1011110101 0111011111 1001010101 110010100101 1001010101 0101011101 1100010101 0101010101 1111110101 1101011101 11010101001 1111101001 01010011101 1101110101 1011001101 1101110101 11110111001 1101111101 11011011111 1101011101 1111000111 1001011101 1101111100 1011010111 0111001101 1111110111 11110111101 110111101 1101011111 1111011101 10110110001 1101011101 1111111111 1111011101 1001011001 0101011101 1001110111 1111010101 11111110101 11001010001 1111111111 0101010101 1101010101 10011110101 0100110101 1001110111 11010110111 1101001111 1111010101 1011011101 1111011101 1111010101 1111010101 1101000111 1101111101 10001011111 1011110101 1001011101 1101110101 1101110101 1101010101 1101011101 1001110101 1101111101 1101000101 1111010101 0101000101 10111101011 1011110101 1101111101 1101111101 1101011101 1110010101 1101011111 1111010101 0111011101 1101010101 1111110111 1111010101 1101010101 1111000101 11001011101 1001010101 1111110101 1111111111 1101011111 1111010101 1101011101 1101001111 1011110111 10001100101 1111010101 0001000101 1101001101 1101010111 01001011111 11111111001 0101111101 10101111101 0101110011 1100010101 1101000101 1011000101 0111011101 1111110111 1000011001 1101110101 1011001101 1011010101 10011001101 01010010111 0101000101 0101100001 0011010111 1101110111 0111010001 10011010001 0100000101 1011010101 1111010111 1101111111 1111011111 0111110111 0101010101 0101010101 10010010111 1101110101 110101110 1101110101 0101010101 1100110101 10001111101 0111101101 1101101111 10111010111 1111010101 11010101001 1111011110 1111111101 1101101101 11110101101 1101111111 1111010111 1101110101 1111101101 1011011101 11010100101 0111111101 1101011101 0111110111 11011100100 11010111001 1100110101 1101001101 0101010101 1101011101 1011001101 1001111101 11111110101 0101010101 111101101 1011110001 1111011111 1111011101 1101110101 1101011101 11010000101 1111011101 1101001101 1111010011 1111111101 0101010111 1101110101 1101110101 1101011111 1111010011 1101110101 1101011101 11111100101 1001111001 0111010111 1111110001 0100110101 1001011101 1101111101 0001011101 1001011101 1001010011 11010100101 1101111111 1101110101 1101011101 1101110101 01010101101 11111001101 0011010101 0111011101 1101110001 11111011100 11010100101 1111110001 1101000101 1100010101 11100110001 110101011001 1111011101 1101110101 1111001101 1101111101 1110010101 1101110101 1111010111 1111010101 10110111001 1010111101 1111011101 11111011111 0101110101 1110010101 1101111011 0111110101 1101111101 1111110101 10111011011 1001011111 1111111101 0111100101 0111010011 11011101001 1101010001 0111010111 1101110101 1111101101 01010100100 11011100101 1011010011 1001010111 1001011101 0111010101 1101110101 11101111111 11111010101 1111110101 1111111101 10110101101 1111010111 1101010101 0101110001 01001110111 0101110101 1101111101 01010010101 1001101101 0100010111 1101001101 1101010101 0101011111 1101010101 10101110001 0011010101 0111011101 1101011101 1111111101 1101110111 11001010101 1101011101 1101110101 1111010111 1101110011 11110001 101 1111010110 1101111101 1101110111 1101100101 1111100101 1111000101 1100010101 1111010101 0101010101 10010111101 1101110101 1111010101 11110101010 11010100110 1101111101 1011000101 0101000111 0111010101 1101110101 1001011101 1101010101 1111001101 1101011100 0111010101 11010111001 1111111101 1101011001 1101010101 1111010101 1101010101 1111001101 0101000101 110110000101 011010111 1101110101 1001000001 1101010101 111111001010 10010101001 0100110111 111000100101 1001011101 1111010101 0111000101 11010010101 1111010111 1101110001 1111111101 1111111111 1111100101 1101111101 0111110101 11111011010 101011111010 0101110101 1001011101 1111111111 0101110101 1001011001 1111111101 1101010101 1101110101 1101010111 1101111111 10110001101 1011111101 1111110101 1101011101
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 5794
  • Average number of words per stanza: 1055
  • Amount of lines: 393
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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; and, let, their, to, what, my, in, i, for, by, of, our, thy, think, which, see, from, or, thou, be, still are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words that, can, let, what, which, think, see, if, and are repeated.

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  • summary of The Conference;
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