This is an analysis of the poem The Borough. Letter Iii: The Vicar--The Curate that begins with:

THE VICAR.
WHERE ends our chancel in a vaulted space,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: a bbccddeeffgghhhhhheeiihhffddeebbbbeeiiccjjddhhkkeeddhhhXeejXhhllmmeennbbbbiihhiimmooppeemXkkccoohhmmmoooobbiigXcceeqqbbgghhhhcceeeXcXddhhkXmXccddllcccchhhhffccppooee c bbhheehhhhmmddhhhhiiddmmllccddeemXeehhccccccmmhhoocchhmXhhllXoooooeeeellbbiiooeeaarrl
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,165,1,171,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 010 1111000101 1001010001 01110100111 11010100001 0111011101 01110101001 1101010111 1011011101 1101011101 1101110101 0101010001 1101000101 1111000101 1010110101 1101011001 0101111001 1101010101 1101010101 1101010111 0111000101 1101010111 0101110101 0101010101 010100001001 1001010111 1101011111 1011111101 1101010001 1011001111 1101111101 01001111101 1111101001 1101011101 1111111001 0101010111 11010100101 11010010101 11110001001 0111110101 0101110101 11010011001 1111100001 1001000101 1101100101 11110101001 1101011101 0101010101 1101000101 1001000101 0111010111 1101110011 1101010101 1101010101 11010101010 11100111101 1101111100 11010101101 1001110001 10001111101 11111101111 10011101001 0101101001 1111110101 1101010101 1101000101 0101111111 01010000111 1011110011 1101111111 1011110101 0111010101 1010110011 0011111101 1111110111 0110011101 1101010101 1011010101 1101010101 1011011111 0101010101 1101010111 1111010101 0101010101 1001110101 0011000111 11010100101 1101000101 0011111101 1011010011 110011111010 1011110101 1111010001 0101001001 1101011101 110100101001 1101011100 1101011001 1101011101 1101010111 1001010101 1101010101 1011000111 1101011111 1011110111 1101010101 1001011110 1101010101 1001011101 1101110101 1111110111 1111110111 0101010101 0101110101 0101010011 1101011101 1111010001 1101010101 11111111101 1111010101 11010101111 1101111101 1101011101 1011010011 1111001111 0101010111 1011010101 1111010111 1101011101 1101010101 0101010101 0101010110 110101001001 1101001111 1001010111 1110110101 01010100101 10101010111 1001110101 1101110011 1011001101 1101010100 1101001101 1111011101 1001011101 01010001111 1111110101 0101011111 0111110101 1001110101 1111011111 01011001001 1011010101 1101110101 0101000111 01010110110 01110000101 0111010101 1001010101 1101111101 0101110001 11001110100 1101010101 1101010101 1111110101 1101011100 010 11111101001 1111011111 0111000101 11010111001 1101011101 0111000101 1111011101 1011010101 11010001101 1111010101 1101111101 1101010101 1001010101 1001011101 1101011101 1101111101 1011110011 1111110101 1111011101 1011111111 11111100101 1101110101 0111111101 11110010111 1110011001 1111100101 1001111111 1101110101 10010100111 11111100101 1001011101 1001110001 010101011011 1111010101 0101010101 1111111101 1001001101 1101010101 1101010101 1111010101 1111110101 0101010101 1001111111 1011110111 1111010111 1110100010 1101111111 1111110101 01001110100 0101010101 0111010101 0111110101 1101010101 1101010101 0101010101 1001010001 1000110111 0101011101 1110000101 0111011101 1101111101 1111111101 01010011110 1101110101 11110111001 01010010101 1111010101 0101010101 10110101001 0101110101 10110101001 0101010101 1011110111 1011000101 1101110111 1001110001 1001010111 1101110101 1110110111 1101000111 011010101010 11010101010 110010100101 1111011111 1111010101 1101011101 0101111101 1101010111 1001110101 0101010111 1111011101 1101111101 1111011101 11001000101 1111011101 10011010111 0101010101 0101010101 10110111100 1001101111 1111110101 1111110101 11110010101 11110011001 1111110011 1111011111 1001110111 1101010101 1101010101 0101100111 1111110001 1111010101 1101010101 1001100101 111101001001 1101011111 1011010011 10111111101 1011010111 1101110101 0111110100 1101111110 01001000101 010101111111 1111010101 10010010101 1111000101 1101010101 1111111111 1101010101 1001011101 0101010011 1001010011 1001011001 10100011001 1010111101 1111111101 1001010101 11010101001 110010101001 1001010101 1101110001 0101010101 1101010101 0101001101 1101011101 1101011001 1101010101 1101000101 11110011111 1111010001 1101100101 1001011101 0111010001 0101110111 1101101111 0111110001 0111110101 1001110001 1101000101 1101010101 1111110111 1101110101 1111110101 1001111011 1101011111 1111111111 1111111111 1111010101 1111011101 1111111111
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 3686
  • Average number of words per stanza: 674
  • Amount of lines: 338
  • 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; and, his, he, she, of, to, not, so, at, some, that, we, from are repeated.

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

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