This is an analysis of the poem To The Right Hon. Mr. Dodington that begins with:
Long, Dodington, in debt, I long have sought
To ease the burden of my graceful thought:... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeeccXfggaaffhhcceeggiiddii jjkkddhh llgXmm aakkjjllnnddgg aabbcc aaaabbccaacc ffeeaa ddhhfXccccXXddaahX ggggjjiiaaiijjddcc XaXfoo fXpp ggee eeiiddggXXXXhXggllbXbbqqffhh llccaaddcceeXfddhhoo ccccXaeejj ggrreecchhgX ggiihXbbeejjhhhXhhppaaccXiiaaeeff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 34,8,6,14,6,12,6,18,18,6,4,4,28,20,10,12,33,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1100011111 0101001101 1101010111 1111011111 1100110101 1101010101 1111010101 1101000101 1101110001 1101010001 1101011101 1101110111 11110011010 1101010101 0101010101 1111100101 1011000101 1101110101 1111111101 11010010101 1011110111 0111011101 1111110101 1100010011 11110100111 1101101111 1101110101 10101010001 1101010111 1101010111 1011100111 1111111011 1101110101 0111111111 1011010101 11010010101 0101110101 1001010111 1101011101 1111000101 0101110100 0111010111 1001000101 1111000101 1101011101 1101101100 1101111101 1101110111 1101010011 0100111111 0101010101 1101001100 1011100101 0101010101 0101010101 0101011101 1111010101 1101001101 1101101101 0101110101 0101010001 1011110111 1011111101 0101010101 110010101001 1111110111 1111111111 1101110101 1111110101 0100011101 1111010101 0100010111 0101010101 1101010101 11001011110 0100111001 1011011101 1001010101 1001010001 1101010101 1100010101 0101001101 0111110001 1101011101 0111010101 1101011101 0101010101 1001110001 1101110101 1101010111 1001010101 1101000101 1101100001 1101111111 1001110101 0101110101 1000010010 010100110 1001100101 1001110101 1111010101 1101010001 1111010111 1101010101 1101000101 1111001101 1111111101 1111101101 1101000111 0111111111 111011010111 1111011111 1101010111 0101010100 1101011101 1101010101 0101011101 1101011101 0101111101 1101010101 11001011111 0101011101 1100010010 0101011101 11111101010 0100110101 0101111101 1111010111 1101010101 01011101110 1011000101 1111000111 0111010111 1111011101 1101110001 1111011101 0101110001 1111011101 1101111101 1101001001 1001110101 1111010011 1001010001 0101110101 11111110110 1111010101 11011111101 1111110001 1111001101 1101011110 1111101001 1101011101 1111110111 0111010101 1111011101 1101110101 1001010001 0110010101 1100010011 1101010111 1111111011 1101010101 1110010101 1101111111 0110010101 1101111111 10101011111 0101010101 1100010101 1101110101 0101110101 1111110111 0101111111 1101010011 0100110101 1101010011 1111011101 11010010111 0011011101 1111010101 0111010101 1001000111 0101110011 0101011101 01010000101 0101010101 110110101001 1111000101 11110100100 1101111101 1001000101 1101001101 10110010101 1101010101 1101011101 0101010101 1100111101 1111010111 1001110101 01001010111 1001010101 1111000101 010010001101 1101010111 1101011101 11010111000 1111110111 1101110101 1101000101 1111011101 1100000101 01011011110 1101110111 0101011101 01111100001 1101010101 0111010111 1101110111 111110101 0111010001 0101011101 110011100 0101111101 0101010101 0101010101 1100010001 1011010101 1110010001 0100100101 1101011101 1100010101 1110010101 110010101101 1100110101 1101110101 1101010101 1001111101 1111011101
- Amount of stanzas: 18
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 575
- Average number of words per stanza: 103
- Amount of lines: 238
- 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; to, her, and, men, of, you, judge, their, for, some, my, ' are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words you, another, some, well, a are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ' is repeated).
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