This is an analysis of the poem The Borough. Letter X: Clubs And Social Meetings that begins with:

YOU say you envy in your calm retreat
Our social Meetings;--'tis with joy we meet.... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbaaccaaddccbXaXeebbXaaabbffeXg hhiXccjjaahhggaaeeggaaddggddggaabbggkXkkiXaakke ggcchhkgggbXiib eekkllkkaaggccggddbbaaccd ddmmggddccnnhhccggeehhmmib ioommhhddhhbXbbdXhXbXaXkXgkggppddbbbXaXq nnaahhaX hhddld laaaaaannkkXbaXggkkh keegg gffggggaapph aaggk
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 33,47,15,25,26,40,8,6,20,5,12,5,6,25,7,14,19,37,12,8,14,21,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1111001101 1101010111 0111011101 0111010101 0101110111 1111111101 0111110101 1111001101 1101111101 0101010101 01010100001 1001110001 0111011101 1101010111 1101011101 1101110011 1111011101 0110110010 1011111101 1101011111 1101111101 1111110101 1111010110 10010100101 1101010101 1001000101 1111011101 11001011101 10011101110 110100111010 1101010111 11010111010 11111111 01 111110001001 1101010011 1111011101 0101111111 1111110001 0010011111 0111010101 1101110011 10001110101 1101010111 1101000101 1101011101 10101110101 1101010101 01001010101 11010101001 1101010101 11111111010 11111101110 1101010101 1101010101 1111010101 11001010101 1111011001 1101110101 1011110111 1111110001 1111110101 1001010001 1101010101 11110001111 1101011111 1011110111 1101010101 1101011101 1011110111 1011010011 1111010111 1001010010 1111111111 1001101101 101010110101 1011110011 1001110101 1101010100 110011011 1 1101110111 1011011101 1111111111 1101010101 0101010101 1111010111 1101000101 0011010101 0011110101 1111111111 11010111110 11010001001 1101010101 110101111 1 1101010101 0101110110 0111011101 110100110001 1101011001 11110101001 1101011001 1111110111 11110010001 1011010101 0111010111 0111111111 1001011111 1101110101 1101001111 1011010111 1101011101 1101000101 1101011101 1101010101 10110010101 01010100101 1101011101 101111011 1 1101001001 1111110111 1101011101 11110100111 0101011111 1111110111 1111110111 10110100001 1111001101 11001010101 1101010011 1011010101 1111010101 1111010101 1011110001 11110001001 1101110111 11110101001 0101010101 110010101001 10111101001 01010011101 1111011101 1111010011 1111000101 01 1111011101 0101100101 1101010101 1101010110 1101110101 1111110101 1101010111 1101111101 1111010101 1111111101 01010110111 1111101100 1001111101 0111011101 1101110111 1111011110 1111011101 1101001101 1001010111 01110100110 1011110001 0111010101 1011110001 1111011101 0011011101 1001110001 1111010101 0101110111 1001110111 0101100101 0100111111 0111011101 1111111101 1111010101 1101011111 0111011111 1101010001 0101011101 111101111 1 1101110111 1111011001 0111100101 11100111001 1111010101 10011101101 1101010010 1001101101 1101010111 1101110111 1011010001 10011010101 110111000 1 1111010101 0001110001 01110011101 1111010101 1111000101 1011110101 1101010001 1101111101 0101011101 0101011001 1111010110 10010100101 1100111101 0111011111 1101110101 1001111111 1101011111 0101010001 111111111 101 1111011111 1101000111 1101010111 0100111110 1 11011101010 110101010010 1101010101 1101010001 0101000101 110101101 1001100101 0101001101 10011000101 1101010101 111111110 1 0101010001 1001010101 01100110001 111101010 1 1101011101 1101110101 1101110101 1101010111 11001011111 0110010111 0111010101 1111010101 1011110101 1101010101 1101011101 1011011111 0101100101 11011101010 11110101010 10011010111 0111011101 1111010101 1101110101 1111111111 1111011001 1101110111 1111111111 1111010100 0011010001 1111110101 11011101010 0101110101 1101010111 111111111 1 1101011101 1101010111 1101110101 010101010101 1111110101 11011101010 0111011111 0101000101 1001010111 0001010101 1101000101 1111000111 0101110101 1101010101 1101010101 1101011101 0001010001 1100010101 1001010101 1101011101 01 1101101001 0101001111 0101010101 0101011101 1101011111 0101000101 1101111101 1101110101 1101110101 1011010101 1001011111 11010100101 1111010001 110100010010 01001010111 1101010101 1101010101 1101110011 1011100101 0111110101 0111110101 0101000101 1111110101 1111000101 1001011101 1101010100 1101011101 1011010101 1001011101 110111111 0101010111 1111110100 0101010111 1111110001 0101011001 0101011101 1011110111 1101010101 0101010101 11110100111 1011001101 1101110101 1001011101 1101011101 1001110101 0101010111 0111011111 1101000101 0111010101 01010011001 1101110101 0101011101 1111010101 0101001101 1111010011 1 11011010001 11010001001 0101101111 101100010101 1111110101 1111111101 0111011101 1101010111 1101010101 11110001001 1111110101 11110011101 01001110111 0101010111 0101010111 10010010101 1101000111 10010101010 110111011 1 0111111001 01001010101 0101000101 1101000101 1011110101 1101010110 0101010101 11010010101 1011000101 1111110101 1111110011 1111010101 11110111 01 1001111101 1101000101 1101101101 11110010101 1101011001 1111110001 11010101001 1111010101 0001110101 11011100011 1 1101010111 1101000101 01001110101 11101010101 1111010101 0101010101 1100110101 1101111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 28
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 611
  • Average number of words per stanza: 112
  • Amount of lines: 409
  • Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
  • 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; you, and, in, might, we, our, to, at, man, his, for, they, their, i, he, of, us, from, when, as, here are repeated.

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

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