This is an analysis of the poem The Borough. Letter Xviii: The Poor And Their that begins with:

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbccddeefg feehhiXjjiigghhjjffhXkkffaai akb khhglmmnniinnccccffffkkhb hhhcchhiigghhhhhhmmkocchhppddbXhhmmkkeXfffkkbbbbkkmmh ld leeeeiiglhhbbmmmmiiddkkoccffiXggiihhppiiiihhbbhhhhiiffkkbbqqhhhhmmmml mhhddiihhhhhhhhhhiicceeig iggaahhhhccffaak ccfh fbbaarraa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 11,28,3,25,53,2,69,25,16,4,16,5,22,7,51,54,1,34,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 10 1111110111 1111110011 1111010101 1100010111 1111100111 0101111111 1001011111 0011110101 0101011101 011111011 1 1011010101 1111010101 1011111101 1001011111 1101011111 010101111100 1101010101 01001011101 0001010101 0111110101 0101110101 0101110101 0101011101 1111010101 1111110101 11110100101 1111011111 0101010101 1111110101 11001010101 1111010101 1101010101 1101110101 1111010101 1111110111 1101010101 1101011101 01 0011010101 11010111010 1 00010100101 1111011101 1101000101 01011101110 011110101001 1111110101 1101001101 0111000101 1101000101 1111000101 0101010101 1101111111 0111111101 1101111111 1101111101 1101011001 11100111101 1101110001 01010101001 1111110101 11010001101 1111010101 1101010011 110101010 1 1101110101 1101011101 1001011111 11011100101 1101111101 1101010001 1101111001 1111010101 1011110101 0101110111 1001110101 1111010011 0011011101 1011000101 1001110111 0111010101 0101100101 1101110101 1011100111 1101010100 0111111001 1101110101 1111010101 1001010101 1101110101 1101010101 1001011011 0101110011 1101010111 1101010101 0111001101 0101011111 1101010101 1101010101 1101101101 1101110101 1101010101 11110101110 0111010101 1111011101 1111110101 0101010111 1111111111 1111001101 1111011101 1111100101 1111110001 1011011100 0101011101 1101011101 1111110101 111111110 10 111111110 10 0001000101 1101001111 0001011101 0101010111 1101110111 0101111110 1111010101 10110101010 11010000101 1101010101 11010010101 1111110111 10110101001 1111011111 0111001101 1101011101 1111000101 1111000111 1111011111 1110011111 10011111111 11110101001 0111010100 1111000111 1101000101 0101010101 1111010101 1101110101 1101011111 1101110001 0111010111 1011101101 0101010101 1111010101 1101000101 1101010101 11110010101 1111010101 1101010001 1001110001 1111110001 1101111101 1101011101 1111111101 1011010111 1011011101 1101010101 1111010101 1101000101 1101011101 010010001001 1011010101 0101111101 1011011101 0011110001 1101001101 0101010101 1001010101 0101010101 1101000101 1111000101 1101010101 11011101001 1111110001 1101011111 11011100101 1011010001 10110111010 1 1101010101 0101010101 11011100111 1101010101 1011110101 1101000101 1111000111 0101010101 1101111101 0101110101 1111011001 11010010111 1111110001 1101011101 1111010101 1101110001 1101100101 0111111100 01110101001 1011010101 1111011101 0101010101 1111011101 111111111 1 0111010101 0101110101 1001010101 11010100101 1011100101 01011010101 0101010101 11010100001 1101011111 0111011101 11010010101 1101011101 1111010011 0111110101 111111011 1 0111010111 0101010101 011111011 1 1101110101 1101010101 0101011101 1111001101 111111101 1101001101 10110000100 1100010101 1101010111 1101010101 1111101101 0101111111 110101110101 1101100111 1111011011 10101111101 1101010101 01010101001 0101010011 010110011011 1 1011110101 01001011101 1011010001 1101000101 1101010101 1111010101 1011010101 01010101110 1011010101 0111010101 1101010101 11010111001 1111000101 1111011101 1111010111 11110111001 1101010101 0011010101 1101001101 0111010101 11011111 01 1111010101 11100110101 11001001111 1101110101 0101010101 10111110110 1 1101011110 0101011101 1111011111 1111010101 1101011101 1111010101 1001110101 1101010101 1101010101 1101011101 1001010101 11011010101 0101011101 1101010111 1011011101 11110101001 1111110101 0101011111 1011010101 1011110101 11010100101 11010010101 101101001001 0110110101 01010100101 0101000111 01001010101 0101110101 1011110111 1010010001 1111011101 1011110101 1011010111 1101011101 1101111111 110101001 1101010101 0111000101 1101011101 10010010001 0101010101 1101110101 1101011101 1011010101 1101011101 0101011101 0101110101 1101010101 1101110101 111111111 1 1011011101 1101010101 1001010101 110001010111 1111010111 1101001101 1111010011 1111010101 01110100001 1101010001 1011011101 1011110101 1101000101 11010101010 1101111101 11011100011 10011101110 11010101010 1001001111 1101000111 0011111101 1101001101 0101111111 1101010101 1101101101 1101111101 1111010001 0101110101 11110011101 0101010101 1101110111 1011110101 1101010111 0101110101 1111010111 01010101001 1111010111 1101100101 11111101100 1111010111 111100111001 1011010101 0101010101 1101111100 1011110101 1101110111 10001011101 10110100111 1011110101 1011110101 1111111101 10110000101 11011101001 101101110 1 0111011101 1011010101 1101011111 1101000101 1101010101 11001011101 1111111111 1101010101 0101011101 0011110101 1101011101 1101011111 11110101111 1101010101 01010010101 0101110101 11001110101 1111001001 11111011101 0111010101 1111011111 1101011111 101110111 1 01010011011 1100110101 0101010101 1111011101 1101010101 0111110011 1000010101 1001101110001
  • Amount of stanzas: 20
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 915
  • Average number of words per stanza: 166
  • Amount of lines: 427
  • 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; her, i, his, he, to, and, they, your, that, by, who, or, for, their, of, it, ' are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words if, he, and, who, or, for, the, they, here, some are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ' is repeated).

    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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