This is an analysis of the poem To My Friend M. Ben Jonson, Upon His Catiline that begins with:
If thou hadst itch'd after the wild applause
Of common people, and hadst made thy laws... full text
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 01110100101 0101011111 01011101011 1101011111 1111111100 1111010101 1111001111 1101011100 1111110101 1111011101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 442
- Average number of words per stanza: 87
- Amount of lines: 10
- 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.
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