This is an analysis of the poem An Invective Written By Mr. George Chapman Against Mr. Ben Jonson that begins with:

Great, learned, witty Ben, be pleased to light
The world with that three-forked fire; nor fright... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaaabbXc ddeeaaaaffaagghhdXiiggaaaajjkibbgggkkllffiikkccjjmmccaafffllXgllllggg
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,69,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 111010101 0101111011 111100010001 1111111101 0101010101 11001010101 1101010100 0001110101 1111010101 101101011 11110010100 1100101111 10111111111 1111010111 0110001111 0101010111 010110010111 11110001111 01011101010 11110101010 11011101101 0111010111 0101110101 1101011101 11101100000 100110001000 1101110101 1111101101 11111100101 11110111001 1111001001 0101110110 1101011011 10110100101 11011100101 0011001101 11010111010 1101010101 11011001111 11111111001 1111100011 11110101111 0111010101 11110101010 01110101010 0101110101 1001100101 1110110111 1011110101 111110101 110100001 1101010110 11000110110 0111010111 0110100101 100111011 1001011100 0101010101 1111011011 01010111001 1111111111 0101011101 10111100111 11000101111 1101011111 1101110101 1111010101 1100010111 0101110010 00111100101 1001101011 111101010 0111001110 0111111101 0101011111 1011010101 0101110111
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1120
  • Average number of words per stanza: 201
  • Amount of lines: 78
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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; most, of, yet, thy, his, all, this, in, and, or are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words their, of are repeated.

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

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