This is an analysis of the poem On The Earl Of Essex that begins with:
Essex twice made unhappy by a Wife,
Yet Marry'd worse unto the Peoples strife: ... full text
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- Rhyme scheme: aabcddeeffgXXXddXdXXeehhddXdiiiiggjjcbee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 40,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1011010101 1101100101 1111010001 0101110100 1111000101 0111011101 1111010101 0111010101 1011110101 1001000111 1111010101 1010000100 1111010111 1101011100 1111010101 1101110111 1001000101 0101010011 101001011 1101010010 101110001 1101011101 1111011101 1101010101 1011010101 1111010101 1110111110 0101011101 11111000101 0101011000 1101010101 0101010101 1101110011 1001011100 1011010011 0100111100 1011011100 1101011111 0111001111 1000000101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1723
- Average number of words per stanza: 291
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; them, of, they are repeated.
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