This is an analysis of the poem The Borough. Letter Xvii: The Hospital And that begins with:

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AN ardent spirit dwells with Christian love,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: Xaabbccddeeffeeeeggffggbbh bbbiijjddjjfffffXkkeeeeeeblddeehhddhhiXeeggggmmhhhhmmcccceeaabbl jjffddee eeennbXhhffkkffhhhhcceeeebbbXeeeehhbXiijjoobbkkhhcchheeiieeiibbeekkiiaaffaa ffnnaaiikkppddffeefXbbqqffeeggfffXXfXfeehhccffffffjjhhXpkkeerrmmeebbffeeeeii
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 26,64,8,75,108,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 100 1101010101 01010001001 1101110101 1101010101 11010001001 1101010101 1101010111 0101010101 0101111101 1101010101 01110100101 1101110100 1101011101 1101110111 11001111101 1111110101 1111010111 01010001001 1011011001 1101010101 1011110111 0111110111 11010101001 11110100101 11010111110 1 1101010101 01011111001 1101110101 1101100101 10001110001 0111110001 1101110111 1001010101 1111010001 0101010101 0101110111 1111010111 1001110111 1111011111 01010011111 1111110110 1001111101 110011100001 1101000101 1111110101 0111010101 1111011101 0111011001 01010110001 1111011101 1001011100 1101011101 1111011101 1101010011 0101011101 0101010101 1101110101 0101100101 1101011101 1101000101 1111110101 0011010101 1101010101 1101010101 1100010101 1111000101 1100011111 1011110001 0101110101 1100011101 010010101001 0101111101 1111011101 1111111111 11010011001 1101111001 0101010101 1101110101 0101010101 0111110101 1111011110 1111010101 1101100101 1101010111 10101110101 1111110101 1101110101 110111010 1 11011100100 1011010101 0101110101 0101000101 11011011101 1101010101 11000111010 1 11010101001 010010100101 1001110101 1101110001 1101010001 111101010 0101110101 0101010101 1101110101 0101110101 1011011101 1101110111 1011100101 11010110101 1101111101 0101010101 1011010101 11110010101 0101111111 1111010111 1101011101 0011000101 0101000111 1111010101 1011010111 1011010111 1111000111 1101010101 1011011111 1111010101 0111011101 0110010111 1101010101 11010010101 0101111111 1101010111 1101110011 1001010101 10010101001 1101010001 1101110111 1101110101 0111011111 1100111101 1101011101 1101010101 01110100101 1101110101 0101010101 1101010011 0101110101 0111110101 1111010101 1101110001 1011110111 1111011101 1101011011 01001111101 1011011101 0111010101 1101110101 1101110101 1111011101 1101011110 11010010111 1111011111 1111010101 1111010101 1011110101 1101000101 1111010101 1101010101 1011110101 0111110101 1111000101 0111010100 1101011001 0101010101 0101000111 0101110101 1011010111 0101010101 1011101101 1101011101 1101010101 0101010101 1101110101 1001010001 1101010101 110010001 1101010101 01010101101 1101110101 1101011101100 1111010111 10110011101 1101010101 11011100101 1111011101 1101110111 1111110101 0111011111 10010010111 1001110101 1101010101 1101110101 1111011101 11111101100 0101011110 110111011 11110001110 0111110100 1101111011 0101010101 1101011101 1101010101 11010111001 0101010101 0101110111 1101110101 1011110011 0101110101 0111010111 0101010101 1111110101 0101010101 0101010101 0101010111 0101010101 11010000101 11010011101 11011101001 11110100101 01110011001 1001011101 01010100001 1111110111 10011000101 1101110101 11010111001 11010101001 1111010101 11111101010 01011101010 1111110101 0101111001 10111100001 0101011101 0111100101 11010111111 1111010111 0101110101 1101110101 0101001101 1111011011 1111010101 1011011101 1111011101 11111111001 1011111101 1001000111 0101010111 1100111101 1101110111 1101110101 1111110111 1101110101 1011100001 11010000101 10001110101 1111111101 1111010101 0101110101 1100010101 1101001111 1111110111 1111010101 1111110001 11010101001 1011010001 1011010101 1101010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 2027
  • Average number of words per stanza: 367
  • Amount of lines: 282
  • 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; to, and, he, her, as, his, no, for, of, that are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words that, and, he, the, to, of, has are repeated.

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