This is an analysis of the poem The Borough. Letter Xi: Inns that begins with:
All the comforts of life in a Tavern are known,
'Tis his home who possesses not one of his own;... full text
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- Rhyme scheme: aaab acb cdd b eX ee ff fgehb h e iijjffkk d cb cXfad aja j llccffmmaahhaab jjccnnccffaaffXjeeffaaffeejjccffjjccff Xo aallcXhheeddccccaaddaannaaaaccccaahhccaaffX ccffffjjeejn jeeccaaffppcccco ddaacceeccffqqjXbbnnaacckkhhjjffccnnaaXgnnqqddjjdXkkcclljjddeec
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,3,3,1,2,2,2,5,1,1,8,1,2,5,3,1,15,38,2,43,12,16,83,12,43,3,22,17,21,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 101001001011 101101011001 101111011011 10100111100 1 01011011111 0111110010 01 101011101011 01111001101 0010010110 01 11110111110 01 11100100101 1 1111011111 11 111111111010 111001111001 111111011001 11110101111 1 11110110111 1 101001101001 01111101001 11101011001 101001011101 01111011001 001111011001 101001101011 1110011010 01 111000101100 1 010111001001 11001111001 001001111001 1010111011 11 111111101001 1111011110 11 1111111011 0101101011 1101011111 1010111101 1100111111 1111010111 11111011001 1101111101 1101010111 1101010111 1101000101 01011000101 1101011101 1001110111 111101110 1 1101001101 1101110101 1101000101 10011000101 0101010101 0101010101 0111010101 0101010101 0101010101 0101111001 1101000101 1101000101 1111010101 0101010110 1110100101 1101010101 1101110001 1101010001 1101110101 0101110101 1011010101 01010001001 0101110101 1011110011 11110100111 1101010101 01010010101 0101101101 01010010001 1101011101 0101010101 10101010101 0111010101 0100110100101 11001000101 0101010101 1101010101 1 1111110010 1 11010010111 1101011101 01011101101 0101010101 10011111100 1001010111 0101110101 1111110111 1101010101 0001100101 0101011101 1110010100 11100110101 1011110101 110011100101 1111110111 0111000101 0101011101 1101001101 1011110101 0011010101 1001110001 1101110001 0101010101 1111110101 0101110101 11110110101 0011110101 10101010101 1111010111 1111001101 1001110110 01010010001 11011000011 1101110101 1101010111 1111110101 1011011110 0101010001 1011110111 11010010101 011111010 1 1101010101 1001010101 11010100101 0111010101 01010001111 0101101101 1111010101 0101011101 110101011 1011110101 110101010 1 1001110111 1101010101 1101010111 1111000101 11111111001 1101000111 10011011101 0101010101 1110010101 0110000111 1111011101 1101110001 1111010101 1101011101 101111010 1 1011010101 11010100101 1011100101 11001011101 11010010101 0101001101 10011100001 1011000101 01010010101 1011010101 1101010101 111110101 0101010101 1101011101 0101110101 0101010111 1101000101 11001010101 1101010101 1101010101 0111010101 1011010101 110100001001 01001011101 11110101001 1101110101 0101011101 0101111101 1111011111 1111010101 1001010001 110010100101 11001011101 1101001111 1011110101 0011110011 0101010101 1001110101 0101110100 1111010101 1101010101 1101010101 1111010001 1111011111 1001110101 1101110101 1101110001 1101111111 1111000100 1101010101 0101111101 01010110101 1001010101 1101110101 1111010101 1101010101 1101010111 1101101101 1101110101 1111110111 10011110101 11010101001 1101000101 0101100101 1101011101 0101111111 1101110001 11010000101 1001110101 1101010101 01010101001 1101110001 11110100101 0101000101 0011110111 1101011111 1101010101 1101011111 1001010101 1011000101 1101011101 1001001110 1 11001110101 11110101011 0111010111 1101111101 00110001001 11010001001 1111010101 1101110101 1101011101 0101010101 011111011 1 10110101010 11010111010 11110011010 11010011110 1011110111 1111010101 1011110111 1111011000 11011100111 1101010101 1101011101 0111110011 1101011101 1101110111 1011111101 1111010111 0101011111 01001010101 1101011101 1101100101 10110101101 11011110101 10101110101 1111010101 0111000101 10101110011 11110101101 0111010101 1101110101 1101110100 10110100111 10111010010 11010101001 1111110111 01010110101 10111101110 1101011101 1111011111 1101111101 1101110101 1101011101 111111111 1 1111110101 111111111 1 1101000101 10001000101 0101010101 1101010101 1111010101 1101010111 1101010001 0111010110 0111110101 1101111001 1101111101 01010100110 0101111101 1101010101 1111111101 1101011101 1111110011 1011010101 01110110101 0111011001 11011111 01 1011000101 1101110101 1101010011 1101000101 0111010111 0111110111 1101110101 1111111101 0101111101 1111110101 11010111101 11001011101 1111010111 1101010101 0111010111 11111111 11 01010101010 1101010101 1111010101 1101010101 1011011101 1101111101 1111010101 1101010101 0100111001 11011111001 1101011001 1111111111 1101110111 1111010101 11010111101 1011110101 1101010101 1001010101 1011110101 111111110 0 1101010111 1111010101 01001010101 1111110101 1011100101
- Amount of stanzas: 30
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 523
- Average number of words per stanza: 95
- Amount of lines: 377
- 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; of, and, to, you, must, what, at, his, all, with, or, by, they, him, my, your, thy are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words you, his, the, that, where, now, nor are repeated.
The author used the same word their at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word to at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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