This is an analysis of the poem The Incomparable Soporific Doctor that begins with:

Sweet, sleeky Doctor! dear pacific soul!
Lay at the beef, and suck the vital bowl!... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccddaaeeffggaaeeddccbb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 26,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 1101010101 1101110101 11001010111 1111010011 1101110101 1001010101 1101010101 1101010011 0101010101 1101110101 0011010101 1110010111 1111000101 0101010101 1101111101 1111010111 010010010101 1011110111 1101010111 1101010101 11001010101 11100101001 1111010101 01011111001 1111010101 0111011101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1137
  • Average number of words per stanza: 206
  • Amount of lines: 26
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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; of, thy are repeated.

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