This is an analysis of the poem The Sister's Expostulation On The Brother's Learning Latin that begins with:

Shut these odious books up, brother;
They have made you quite another... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeeffeeeeccggaabXhhaaddbbbb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 34,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111001110 11111010 1011100 1110101 1111101 1110101 0110111 0110101 1111101 0110111 1110101 1011100 1110101 0100100 111010010 00101110 1011111 1110101 1110101 1010111 10111010 11101110 1110011 011101 1011101 1110111 01101010 10111010 1111101 1110011 01111001 1110101 1110101 1010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1013
  • Average number of words per stanza: 192
  • Amount of lines: 34
  • Average number of symbols per line: 29 (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; you is repeated.

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