This is an analysis of the poem The Borough. Letter Xix: The Parish-Clerk that begins with:

WITH our late Vicar, and his age the same,
His clerk, hight Jachin, to his office came;... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aab accccddccddcceef ddgggghhbbXcgXddiiffddccfXjjiiddkkddi kkXaiiccddaahhiddggdddddiXc hhjjllffkkggllmmcccciikkccjjlXccddmmeeccaaaajjddiiffccddb nncci iimmffcciiccnncchXgXffaagXX gghhmmggkkaXggddjjjjcck cggccccddddccddggddhha ccllddhhcckkddnnggddhbd hllkX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,16,37,27,57,5,27,23,22,23,17,54,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 0111010101 0111000101 01111001110 1 1101010111 1101010101 1101010101 11010000101 1111010111 1101010111 0101010111 1101100101 1101010101 0101010111 1011110111 1111010101 1101111101 1011100101 01110111 01 0101111111 1111010101 010011101001 1101011111 1001010111 01001011101 0111010101 010101010010 10010101010 1101010110 1101011110 1101110101 11011101010 1101010101 1111110111 1101100111 11010011101 1100110111 1101010111 1111110101 1011110101 1111010111 1111010101 0111111011 1111011001 1101010101 0001110110 0111010101 1111010101 1101111101 1101110101 1101010101 1101011101 0011111110 1101010101 111101110 1 1101111101 010101110110 11011101001 1111111101 0101110011 1001011101 1101010101 1101010111 1001110101 1101110101 0111110101 10111011101 111101001001 111101101001 1111011101 0101110111 1101110101 1101010101 1101001101 1111010101 0111110100 1101010101 1011110101 1111011111 01011101110 110111011 1 0101110111 1101011101 1101010101 1101010101 0101110111 1010111101 0110110011 1101010101 1111110110 11100011101 1101010111 1111010101 11110010101 0111110101 11001110101 11001110101 1101010101 1111110101 1101110101 1101110101 0101010101 11110100101 1111111101 1101110111 0111110001 1111110101 1101010101 1011010101 1101010101 10001010101 1011110101 1001010101 1111010101 11001010101 1101011101 1101010101 1101011111 1101011101 1101010101 01110101001 1011000111 1101110111 1111000111 1111110101 1101010101 11010101001 01010111001 1101000101 1110010101 1111100101 1011010101 0011000101 1111010101 1101010101 0101010101 0111010010 1 0101010101 01001010101 1101000101 110101010 1 11010101101 0111010101 0101010111 10110011101 0101010101 1001010001 1101010101 0100110101 1111010101 11010100101 1111010100 1101110111 1101011001 11110101001 1101110101 1101110111 1111110001 0101000101 1111000101 0101110111 11111101001 1111110101 1101110101 0101011111 1101110111 110110010 1 1001100101 1101111101 1111010111 11001010101 1101110101 1101010111 1101010101 1111010111 0111111101 1101110111 010101011010 0101000101 1111011111 1111110101 0101011101 0111011101 1101000010 1101011101 1111110101 1111100111 1101010101 1101011101 01 0101010101 11001010110 1101010101 01110100111 10011110111 0101010111 1101011101 11010110101 0011100101 1101011101 0111110101 10110000111 10011010101 1101110101 01110111001 1101011001 1101011101 0101110101 1111110101 11010011111 101101011 1 1101110101 11110110101 11110110101 1111010001 1111010101 1101110101 1011010111 1101010101 1101110101 1001010111 1011110101 1001110101 01010100101 0101010111 1101110001 1101110101 1111110101 1101010101 1111001101 1011110011 01111101010 01010101111 01 1011010101 01100110111 1001111111 1101010111 1101110101 1101110101 0101010101 0101000101 0101111101 1111100101 01010111001 01001110111 1111010101 0111110101 11110110011 011100011 1 0101110101 1101110001 1111010101 0101010101 0111000101 1111010101 1101000101 11010001110 1001010101 1110111101 1101110101 10001011100 1111010101 1001110011 1101011101 1111010011 1101000101 1011011001 1111111101 0111010101 0101110110 1111010101 0111010101 1001010111 1001011101 1011000101 1011010101 1111110101 1101010001 1101110101 1101011111 1101000101 0011111001 1101110111 0111110101 1110110101 01010100001 11111101001 1101000101 1111110111 1101100101 1001010101 11010010101 1110011111 0101110111 0011110101 0101011101 1111011111 1101010111 1111110101 0011110101 11010001010 1001110001
  • Amount of stanzas: 12
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1099
  • Average number of words per stanza: 207
  • Amount of lines: 311
  • 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; his, that, and, should, my, of, to, such, her, they, i, he, it, on are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words should, he, the, a, or are repeated.

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  • summary of The Borough. Letter Xix: The Parish-Clerk;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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