This is an analysis of the poem The Impossibility Conquered : Or, Love Your Neighbour As Yourself. that begins with:

In the Manner of Sir Walter Raleigh.
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Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: a bccaadd effeffXg XXhXiI jb bddiI iii kik ii kkglfgXXiI hd Xbdjdji idd ddggigcfac XddffciXc jjmmhffX lalXbb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,7,8,6,2,5,3,3,2,10,2,7,3,10,9,8,6,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 0010011010 0010 11110101 11010101 110101010 110100010 11110001 01000101 11010111 11 1 10101 11100101 11010101 10111110 01010111 11011111 101010101 101011111 010101010 11111101 101110101 0111011 10 110001010 11010010 11010011 11110101 101110101 111111001 10101010 1 11111001 1101010 1 11011101 11110101 111101011 111101111 1101011001 1 10 10101 111 1000 1 101110101 1101111 1 11100 10 1 110 1 110 1 01001111 11110101 01010101 11111101 11010101 11010101 01111111 11 0100 01 1 10 10101 0100 111101001 100110111 11100101 11010101 11010101 11010 10 1 11010011 01010101 11010111 000111001 011101111 0101 1 1010 010111011 110111010 11100011 11110101 11110100010 11110100010
  • Amount of stanzas: 13
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 193
  • Average number of words per stanza: 35
  • Amount of lines: 97
  • Average number of symbols per line: 25 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; he is repeated.

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

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

    The poet repeated the same word themselves at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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