This is an analysis of the poem The Contented Man's Morice that begins with:

False world, thy malice I espie
With what thou hast designed;... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: XabaXa cacXca adadad efgfgf bcbcbc cacaca hehXhe gagaga iaiaia dedede eXgigX Xejeje Xkkkkk kakaka cacaca bXbXbX glglgl dldldl mXmXmX kkkkkk ddidid cbcbcb efefXf jdjdjd bababa babXbX dddXdX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1111011 011101 10101001 111101 1111111 110101 01110111 110101 11110111 0101100 10110001 110101 11111001 1111010 11111001 1101010 11111101 1111010 11011100 1101110 11011111 1101110 11110111 1101110 01010101 1111010 11111101 1101010 11011111 1010110 01011111 0101100 110101001 11001010 11110101 1100010 11111101 1111110 11100101 1101010 11010101 1111110 11011111 1111010 11010101 1011010 1101101 0101110 10110101 111101 01010101 111101 11010101 000101 11011111 1111010 11110111 0101010 11101001 1111110 11110110 1101010 11110101 1111110 10110111 1011110 11110110 1111010 01110101 1101010 11011101 0111110 11011110 1101010 11011111 10101000 01000101 1101010 11010101 110101 1111101 111101 10010111 111111 00110111 011101 11010101 111001 11110101 111001 1111011 1111100 11111100 0111100 11011111 1101100 11000101 110110 11001101 1100110 11110101 1111010 10110101 1111010 110100001 1111010 11110011 1111110 11010101 1101100 11001101 1100100 11111101 0110110 01110111 1111110 010011101 1111110 10111101 1111100 10011011 1101110 11011111 1111010 11001111 1110110 11111111 1100011 11010101 010101 11010101 1101111 111110110 1111010 010110110 1001110 11011111 1111110 01110011 1101110 01010110 1111010 00011111 0111010 11111101 1111010 01110111 1111010 11101111 1111010 01011101 110101 11111101 1111100 11011111 1111100 11111011 1111111 11101101 1101111 1100101 1101000
  • Amount of stanzas: 27
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 190
  • Average number of words per stanza: 35
  • Amount of lines: 162
  • Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; for, i, and, have, they are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.

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  • history of its creation;
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