This is an analysis of the poem The Devil Of Pope-Fig Island that begins with:

BY master Francis clearly 'tis expressed:
The folks of Papimania are blessed;...

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccddee ffgg aahhddff bbbbiXaajjee ffXabbkkffcc llkkaabbddiihhccbbmmaakgcc aaiiggccbb aaffbbbbaaccnnbb ddbbbbff ccbbbbkX ooppbbjjbbaaaaXckkjjbbcc bbbbhXffkkfXdd eeqqccffbb aaccbbjjhhrraaXabbbbaa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,4,8,12,12,26,10,16,8,8,24,14,10,22,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1101010101 010100011 1110010111 0101010101 1111011101 11011101101 10101111111 1101011101 11100010101 1110110101 1101110101 1111011101 1101010011 1101010011 1101010101 0101011101 0111011101 0100010101 1011011101 011010101 0101011101 0111011011 11101011101 1101010101 1101110101 1101110101 1100010111 1101011011 0100110101 1101011111 0100010101 1101110111 0111110101 1101111001 1101010101 1111010101 0101110010 1101110101 0101010101 0101010001 1111000111 1111010001 1111111111 1101111101 0101011001 0101011101 1111110101 0100011101 1111010101 1011110101 1111010101 0100100111 1111110001 01010101010 1111111101 0101111101 1101010101 0101110101 1001011101 0001100101 1101110101 0111100101 1111010101 1101010101 1110010011 0111110101 10011010101 1101001001 1101010001 1101110101 1100011011 0001110101 0101110111 1101010111 0101010101 1101110101 1101110101 1101010001 0100001101 0100010101 1101110101 1101110101 1101010101 0111110001 0101010101 01100110101 1101010101 0111110101 1111010111 0111001101 1001010001 1101011101 11110111001 0100011101 0101110001 1101010101 1111010101 1100011101 1101001101 1101110101 1110110101 1101010101 1101110101 1111010101 1111110101 1001010101 0101010101 0100010101 1100010001 1111010101 1101010111 1101010101 1101011111 11010101100 0111111101 1101010101 1101110001 1101000101 1101010101 1101011101 0101010101 11010110 1101100101 1011011111 0101000101 1011010101 1111010111 0101010101 11110011110 1101110101 1111110111 1001010101 1101001110 1111111111 11001000101 1111000101 0101010101 11011100101 0111010101 0111011101 1101000101 11011101001 0101010101 1101001110 1111110101 0101111101 1111110111 0101010111 1111001101 1001110001 1101001111 1101011101 0101110011 0101110111 1101010101 1101011101 1101110111 1101110001 01010110101 1101010101 1101110101 010110111 0101010101 0101011101 11011010001 110110100001 1101110001 1111110111 1101111101 0100110101 1111110101 1111010101 1001110111 1101111101 1111110111 1101010001 1101110010 1101110101 1101111101 0101111101 0101110101 1101010101 1111010101 0101010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 14
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 570
  • Average number of words per stanza: 103
  • Amount of lines: 184
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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; to, i, of, and, she, his, her are repeated.

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

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