This is an analysis of the poem The Borough. Letter Xii: Players that begins with:

These are monarchs none respect,
Heroes, yet an humbled crew,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababbcbbc dcdccecce fff feeeeaaX agghhiibbjjcciiggddgXXdffddggccggf ddggaahhddaaffggffddcci caaggkkkkggiikke dddc ddddggkkaakkffffaaggbbccccaaggaallggddgXmmnnccddmmffaacceeffffnnffffooffffppddaXppaabbmmffcXoofXeeiiffffffgghheeggiiiiffbbggaakkeeccffcciiccX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,9,3,8,34,23,16,4,148,54,88,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1111101 1011101 1010101 1011101 1010001 0010101 1010101 1010101 110111 1110101 0010101 1010101 00101001 1011101 1010111 1111111 1010111 1001101 11010011101 1101010101 1111110101 01 1011110101 01110100101 11001010101 1001010001 11010100111 1101110101 1111011101 01 1101110101 1101011101 1101111101 1101010101 11001011101 1001010001 0111111111 0101010101 1101011101 01111101001 1011010111 1011111101 1011000101 1101011101 1111010101 1111111101 1111011101 1111110111 1111011101 1111011110 111101101100 1111010011 0101001111 11010001001 1111011101 1101110001 1101110111 1111010101 1111011101 1111110101 0111111101 1101110101 100101011 1 1101010111 1101110011 1101111101 0111011101 0101010101 1111000111 1011010101 1011010101 0101010101 1101010101 1111010101 1011011111 1111010101 1001010001 0111010111 1001010001 0101010101 1111111101 0111110101 1011010111 0111110101 11110111011 1 1101111101 1111010011 1011000101 11110010111 11010010101 01001010101 1101011101 0101001001 1111100101 0101110111 0111010101 0101010101 1001010111 1111010001 1110110010 1 10110011101 1111011111 111111011 1 11011110011 1101011101 11011011011 11110011001 0111010001 1011011001 1101110111 0111010111 0101011001 0101011101 0101100101 00010011001 0101100101 10010011101 0111000101 0101110101 1111010001 0101110101 1101010101 0101110101 1101110101 1011000101 1101110001 0101110101 0111110001 1101110101 0101010111 1101110111 0011010101 1111011101 1101010001 11101111001 1111010101 1101010001 0101110011 1101100101 1101011101 1001110101 1101111101 1111100101 1101011101 1011110101 1101011001 1101110111 1111010001 01010100110 11010101010 11001110101 0101100101 0101110001 1001010101 1111010101 0101110111 1101000111 1101111101 11010010101 1101110101 1111010111 10010101001 1101010101 1001010101 10110100011 1001110001 0101000101 0101010101 0101010101 0101010001 1101111111 0101001101 1101000111 1111011111 0101110101 1101010101 0001010101 01010010101 0101110101 11010101010 0101110101 1101011101 1111010101 1111001101 11011111001 0011011101 1111011101 1101011111 1001011101 1101010101 0101010101 1101011101 1101110001 1111000101 1011011111 1101010101 1011001101 0101010111 1101110101 0101001101 1100010111 1111010101 01001110111 1101111001 1011010101 1101110101 0101111011 1001010001 1101011111 1101011101 0101010111 1111010101 1111011101 111100111001 0101010111 1101000101 1011010111 1111010101 1011011101 1111110111 1101000101 11110001001 1111010101 0101110101 01010001001 1011010101 1111010111 1111010111 1101010101 1111000101 1101010101 1111010101 1111111101 11010111000 1101011101 0101110011 1101011101 1111001101 1100010111 1101011111 0111010001 11010111001 01100111111 1101111101 0101011111 1101011111 1011011001 0101010111 1101010101 0101010010 1 1101010011 0101100101 010111011001 11010100101 0111110101 0101010101 0101010111 0101100101 1101011011 11011110010 1111100101 0101001001 1111011111 1111010101 0101111111 0101110111 10101010101 1101010101 1101010111 1111110101 11010101010 1001010001 0111111101 1111010011 0101000101 1111110101 1101010101 0101010101 0111010101 0111010101 1101000101 1110011101 0101100101 11011110001 1111010000 1101010101 1101001101 01010111001 0111010101 1111011101 1111010101 1011000101 10111010001 1001011101 1111010101 1101110101 0101110101 11011100111 01001110101 1101010101 1111010001 1101010101 001111010 1 1111011101 1101011101 0011010101 0101010101 1111011111 1101111101 0101011101 1101001101 0010111001 1101110111 0101110101 1101001111 1011110101 1001010001 1101110101 1101100101 0111010111 0001111001 1001010111 1111110011 0101000111 01110100101 1101010100 110010100111 1011010101 01010011111 1001001111 1111011101 1111000101 11010110101 1111110101 0111011101 1101001111 1111110101 1011010111 1101010101 1101010101 0101010101 1101011101 0101010101 1001010101 0101010111 1101010101 110100111001 0111010101 1101111110 1111010001 1011111101 11011100101 1111010101 1111000111 1101011101 11110010101 0101010101 1011010101 110100010101 1111011101 11001000101 1101010101 11010100001 0111010111 1101011101 1101010111 1111010111 1111110001 1111110101 1101001101 0101111001 1101010111 1101000101 11110111001 1111011101 11110001001 1111000101 0111010101 1111010101 1101010101 0101000101 11011111001 1111011101 1101010111 0101110111 1101010011 1101000101 11010100111 1101011101 1101010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 11
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1538
  • Average number of words per stanza: 276
  • Amount of lines: 396
  • 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, all, they, your, to, thy, of, her, she, he, his, some, vain, so, in, there are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words what, to, her, for, had are repeated.

    The author used the same word these at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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

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