This is an analysis of the poem Pygmaeo-Gerano-Machia: The Battle Of The Pygmies And Cranes that begins with:

From the Latin of Addison.
The pygmy-people, and the feather'd train,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: a aabbccbb ddeeeeaabbbbbb aabbffffccggfXbb hhbbbbffccffiiccjj bbXbklbbllcccX eeaaddbbffddiiXb Xfccffaa mmeenn aaddffiiffggbXlleeddbbccfflk llffaabbccaabbXbffbbXlbb bbbbbbXaXoccddddff hhmmff bbaaccmm ffjjfXee llaaffklnn nXmmffiiccoo
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,8,14,16,18,14,16,8,6,28,24,18,6,8,8,10,12,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 00100100 0101010101 10001010101 1111010101 1111010101 01011100101 11110000101 1100011101 0101111110001 0111010111 111000101 1111010101 11010101001 01011010101 11011000001 101000101 11010010101 1111011101 11010010101 11110101001 0101110001 0111110101 1101010101 11001000101 1011010101 10001010101 1101010101 1101010101 01001000101 1100011101 11010110001 1101110101 10110101001 11010101001 010100110101 1111111101 1101110101 1011010101 10001010001 11001100011 11010011011 0101011101 1101010001 1001010101 01110010111 11010110001 01011100101 1101010111 1101010101 0101010111 1001011101 1101011101 1101111101 1011010001 0011010111 1101010101 1101011101 1111110101 10110001001 11111100101 1111010101 111100101110 011100101 11010111001 1011010101 11010010101 1100010101 1101011101 1011110101 11110100111 1101010100 1101011101 0101010101 1101110011 0111011101 1101010101 0101011101 010110101 1101010101 01010111001 11001010101 0101111101 11010001001 1111111101 1111110111 110101001100 11001010101 1101010110 0101011101 1001111101 1111010101 110111001 011110010001 110100101110 101100100010 11101110101 11010110101 1100010101 11011101001 01110100111 1101010101 1001010111 01010101001 1101011101 11010101001 11010010101 10110101001 0111010011 01001010101 1010010101 11010101001 0101010001 0101110101 1101010101 1001010101 1101010111 0101010001 1101010101 1101010101 1111011101 01010101001 11010100101 1111010101 01010100101 0111110101 1111010101 1100100101 1101110011 01110101010 0101010101 011101001001 1101101101 1001010101 11010101010 111010101110 01010100101 0101000101 110000100101 1001010101 0101100101 1011010101 01010101001 1101110101 0101010101 11010100101 1101110001 0101010101 1001011111 1101001101 100100111010 0101011101 1101110101 1101110101 0101010101 11010101001 111010101001 10010011101 11010100011 0100010101 010011010110 10100010001 1100110001 0101010001 0101011101 1101011101 01011100001 1001010101 1111110101 1101011101 1001111101 01011100111 1101010101 01010100101 0101010101 10011010101 0101010101 1101010101 1101110101 011010100101 1101101010 11011101110 11010010011 1011010001 11010101001 11110010101 1111010101 1101010101 1101110101 100101001001 1111010101 11110011101 0101011101 1001010101 1101011101 1101010101 10110101010 10011001010 1111010101 1111010101 1010100010010 1101010011 11010100101 11001001101 1101010101 01010111001 1001010101 1100010101 1101010101 1001010111 0111010101 11110101001 1011110101 1101010101 11110110011 1101000111
  • Amount of stanzas: 17
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 563
  • Average number of words per stanza: 96
  • Amount of lines: 215
  • Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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; and, of, his, to, from, with, their are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, from, where, what, the are repeated.

    The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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