This is an analysis of the poem The Borough. Letter Vii: Professions--Physic that begins with:

NEXT, to a graver tribe we turn our view,
And yield the praise to worth and science due,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccbbbbddddeeffgghhhhiijjggaahhjjkkggccddddgghhggllhhg cchhddkkhhbbjjffhhmmbbgghhhhhhXc XkXhhn ccllhhggddbbjjooda diiggghhjjjjccggffgggggXhhjjkkcchhbbonooiiddkkXcjjbbddffppddjjddbbaaggjjffXaaffX ccggjjkkjjiihhddffjjggppjjiiddhhccddjjjjffaabbggjjffhhkkb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 57,32,6,18,80,85,26,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 1001011111 1101011101 10010011101 1111011101 1001111101 1011010101 1111010111 01001000100 1101110111 0101010101 1001110101 0101000101 0101010101 0111110101 1001110101 01111101001 10110100100 10101010101 0001000111 1001110111 1101001101 11110111001 1011110101 1101110101 1101000101 1011010101 1111010101 0111000101 0001000111 0101010101 1001000101 1101010111 1101010101 01001010101 010101001001 1111010101 10001011111 11010100101 1101011011 1101001101 1111000111 1001010101 1101001111 1101011101 01111111001 1101000101 01011101001 01011010111 1111100111 0011000101 0101110101 1101011101 11010001001 0101111101 1111011111 0001001101 110111001 01 1101010101 1101010101 1101011101 1111010101 1101110001 1101111001 1101010101 11010010101 1101010111 1011111101 1011111101 0111011101 0101000101 11111100111 0111010101 0101010101 1111110101 1011010001 0101101101 1001010111 1101010101 11010101010 10110011010 1101011101 1111010101 01010101001 1111110111 01010011101 1111000101 11011101001 1111011010 10 1101111101 1111110111 11010001001 1101111101 110101111 1 1101110111 1001010111 1101110001 1111011101 1101010011 11100010001 0101010001 1101000101 1101110001 1001100101 1111000101 1101010101 1011010101 11010010101 1111011101 1101110100 11111111 11 1101110101 1001011111 1111010101 1101110101 111101111111 0011000101 1101010101 1101010101 1101110101 1101010101 1101110101 00010011101 0111110101 0100100111001 1101010101 1101101101 1101110111 0101101101 0110011111 11011010101 11010101001 11010100101 1111110000 1001001111 1111011100 11010101001 0101010101 0101110111 01110100111 1111111101 01011111101 1101011111 0111111101 1101001101 1010010101 1111010101 11010011010 1101011101 1101000101 1101010101 0111110101 0100110101 0111110101 1111011101 0101011001 1101010110 1101110101 1101010111 1111100101 1101110101 1111110101 1111001101 1101010111 1101000111 0101110101 1111010001 1101000101 11010011101 0101010101 1101010101 011000111 0101111101 1001110101 0101010101 1101010101 11010101001 10010101001 010101010010 11010001010 1011110001 0111011101 1111010111 1101010101 101101010101 0111010111 1011010101 0101110101 1101110101 1101011110 1 11011111010 1101010111 1101010101 1101110001 1101010101 1111011101 1101010111 1001010011 0111110011 0101010101 11110010101 0101010101 1111010101 0101001101 1001110001 1111010101 0111010101 1101010111 1101000101 1111111111 1111110001 1101010101 0111010001 0111011101 0101011101 11011101001 0101110101 1001111101 1101110101 1101010101 0101110101 11010010101 0101011101 0101010101 0101110101 1001110101 1011110101 1111010101 0111010101 0111110111 0111001101 1101110111 0101010101 1101110101 1101010101 01110101001 1101111101 1111010101 01010101001 1101011101 1101010101 1100110101 1101110001 01010111001 0101000101 1101010101 11001110100 0101110101 0101010001 1101110101 1101011101 1011010111 0101011101 1101011101 1101110101 11011100101 0101011111 1101010101 111100100101 1101010101 11010100111 1101001101 11001011101 1111010101 0101000111 11110101010 010101001010 0101010001 1111110101 1101010101 1011010111 1111010111 1111011101 111101110 100 1101110101 1101011101 1100000101 1101010101 1101011111 11100011101 0101010101 0101011101 0101010101 01110100101 1111011111 0101110111 1001010101 0101000101 1111010111 1111111101 1111011111 01 0111010101 11110010101 11110101001 1001110111 1111010101 11010001001
  • Amount of stanzas: 8
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1645
  • Average number of words per stanza: 295
  • Amount of lines: 303
  • 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; and, to, he, they, ', their, as, his, you, her, of, hence are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words with, that, their, it, would, pride, hence, to are repeated.

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

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