This is an analysis of the poem Ben Jonson Entertains A Man From Stratford that begins with:

You are a friend then, as I make it out,
Of our man Shakespeare, who alone of us ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcddbefgdfehdXfdehhXacXfdfacfhaagcfXaddddigjafgkcaikglcblcm ffdnddhibhoogdnXibgda aegadpXhbdgddgadmdbdgaldpffbdXddlfdlgmlq XfnggacecndnffbgdaXbgpdalnXrdcgmn ggdbcpdfialbhdaaflfsnlqfgffqbgpabbdheclcbqXpcfkhandfgfnaifdghfgfggparaiXdlttfdaggaacrgkbcfpaXhdg
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 60,21,40,33,96,54,26,24,31,18,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1101111101 0111110101 011110101 11110100110 1101001100 01000100001 1101110111 0101010110 1111011101 1111111101 1101111100 1101111101 000100111010 11010101010 11010100110 1111011101 0101000111 01010001010 11011100010 110101101110 1101001100 11110101110 01010100110 11010110100 01110101110 1101010100 01010100010 1111010111 01110001010 1111111111 10011111010 11101101110 110010011010 110011011111 1111111101 11011100111 1101110111 1111110111 0101111101 1101111101 101010101010 11001111010 01111100010 00110111011 11101101010 1111011110 1101010011 1111110111 11010111010 11011101010 1101010100 1110011111 11100111010 1111011101 111111111 1111010111 11001011111 0111011101 1011110001 1111011011 1111100100 11110101010 1110001101 0101010111 0100010011 11010111110 01111111110 10110111010 1111010111 11110101010 0111111101 1011110101 11010101111 0111110111 1111011101 01010101000 11110000010 0101010100 0101111111 1101011101 1111100101 11110110111 1111111111 11011101001 1001111101 1111110101 11111111010 1111010100 1011011010 1101111100 1001010100 1111111111 111010011 1101011100 01001111111 1001011111 0101000111 1101010111 11010101010 1101011101 0111001101 11010101101 1101110111 1111011001 1111010100 1111010101 1111110111 11111111010 01110011101 1101111001 01011111110 1111110101 1101011111 0111111111 1101010001 01011011111 0101110101 1101010011 1101110111 111111101 11010111111 11110100111 1101110100 1111111111 10011011111 1101011111 0101010101 1111011101 1111010111 1111110111 1001110100 0100011110 1101000101 1111110101 1111111110 0100100100 1101001111 1101110111 1111111101 1101010100 11110101010 1111010001 11011000101 11111111010 11000010111 11010111011 1101111111 111000110 0110110111 0111110100 1101111001 1101010111 1111111101 11011101011 11110101111 111001101011 1101010111 11011101111 1111011101 0101010101 01101111010 11011111110 11001111010 11001111111 1111011001 01010001010 11110101010 1111111101 10111110000 11011111010 11010111010 11100101111 1111010101 01010100011 10010111100 1111011111 0101100001 0101010101 11011001101 111100101010 0101011101 11010111111 01010100011 110111111011 1111011110 1111011111 11010111011 1111001111 1101010100 11100111110 1111111101 11110101110 11010011101 0101111111 01001110010 1101011101 0101011000 0101010101 0101000111 11011110110 11111111010 1110110100 1111111100 1101010111 11010111010 1101001101 11110111011 01110111010 1011111101 11110101110 1111110101 011101101110 110110111101 010110010111 11010110110 11011100010 11011111110 11110101010 010110101011 11010101011 1111110101 01110101000 11110011111 1111011111 11011111010 11001010101 11010101010 1101010001 01111101010 11110111010 11111111110 1101010111 01011100110 11101111011 11010101011 1100010101 1100010101 1100010111 1101010101 11110100011 010100111110 1001010111 110101000011 01100101010 0111010111 1111110100 110111110010 11111100010 0111000101 11011111011 1101010111 111101011011 110110010101 1101010111 01001101010 0100010111 01010100110 110101001101 0101001101 1110111111 01011111110 1111011101 1100010111 1111011111 11000111010 1111010111 0100011101 1111111100 1101111111 1111011111 1001010111 11011101111 1111011111 11100111010 0101110101 1101101101 1111011101 1111111001 110110101010 01011101110 10011101010 1111011111 11110100110 1111110101 10110101110 1111110101 11111110110 11110101111 1111111101 1101110101 11011111000 10010111111 10011101010 1111011001 1111111101 1100110011 11110100101 110110111010 01010100110 0101111100 1100010011 1001101101 1101010101 11011 11111 10101010101 1110110110 1101110111 1111011101 0111100101 1111010001 1011010101 11110111010 11001101011 10111111000 11000010001 1101110100 1101010111 1111011101 01011110010 1101011101 1101000101 0101101110 1101010101 01011111010 11000111010 01010111010 10111000111 1101110011 11011101110 1111011011 11011011010 001010100010 11001101001 1111110100 10010001100 11110100110 10101110111 1001011101 11110110010 11110101010 01010001110 1010100001010 1001010111 01010011111 1001110111 1111101100 1101110111 1111111111 1111011111 0101111111 1111100100 1111111101 1101010100 11011111110 1110110111 1111011001 01011100100 0101111101 0101000111 0101011111 0101011101 01110101110 01110101110 0101001101 1101001111 1101111101 01110101010 1111110101 100111111010 0111110111 11011111010 11000101010 11110101110 11010110010 10011110110 1101110110 01011100110 1100110101 01010011101 0101010111 0101110111 0101010111 1111010101 110111010100 11010110111 0101011111 111111010101 101011101110 0001010101 0011111101 1101011000 01000101010 1111111111 0101110111 1111110101 101101010011 11000101110 1101011100 0111000110 11101101010 1111110011 01111111010
  • Amount of stanzas: 10
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1759
  • Average number of words per stanza: 354
  • Amount of lines: 403
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; you, of, or, he, him, help, and, king, his, i, needs, that, for, to, at, ll, all, in, s, us, have, it, what, may, we, re, flies, had are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words or, and, they, he, it, the, a are repeated.

    The author used the same words i, he at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines it, dog, him, cleopatra are repeated).

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase talk connects the lines.

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