This is an analysis of the poem The Magnificent that begins with:

SOME wit, handsome form and gen'rous mind;
A triple engine prove in love we find;...

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaaabbbbccdd eeddaaaX ffddgg hhffibjjddaa aaaaffaa ddaaaaeeaaaaii aakk ddbbaaddii eeddddllggddbbii aaiieehh ddmmff aaddaammjjcc mmbbnniiaaddXhllmmmmmmaaddiiaakk aaiiddhhbbddmmddhhkkaaii aacc ddaahhiiffiiaahgmmffmmllaacc nniibbdd aaeeiiaaddXbbhh
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,8,6,12,8,14,4,10,16,8,6,12,32,24,4,28,8,15,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 111011101 0101010111 1101010011 10111110001 0111000101 1111011101 1111011101 0101101101 11011100101 1101111001 0101010001 1101010101 0101010011 1111010111 0101010101 1101011101 0101011101 0011011101 0101001101 01110111100 0101010101 1001011101 0101010111 1101010101 10110101010 01110101010 0101000101 1100010101 0101110001 11001001101 11010010101 0101010101 0111010111 1101001001 0100111111 1101010111 0111000101 1110111001 0101001111 0101010101 0101110101 0101011101 1101011101 1001111100 1111011001 0101110101 1001010110 1101010101 1001010111 1111110101 1101110111 1111010001 1101011101 1101110101 1101011101 1101000101 0111111101 0101010111 0101011101 0101111101 1101010101 1101110001 1111111101 10011011101 0100010111 01011100111 1101001101 1101010101 1100001101 0110011101 1100011101 1001010101 1111110101 1101010101 1001001101 0111010111 1101011101 1101101101 1011011111 01001011101 0111010011 1111001001 10110111010 11010111010 1111111101 11001101001 1101010101 1101001111 1111111101 1111010101 0101010001 1100111001 0101110111 0101010101 1101110101 1001111101 0101010101 0101011001 1111000101 1101010111 1100110111 1101110111 0101010101 0111110100 1110010101 01001011101 01000101111 0100010111 1101010101 1110110101 1001010101 1111011101 1111110101 0101100101 0100110001 0101110101 11000110111 0111110101 1111010101 1101110101 1101010101 1101011101 1101010101 0101011101 1100111101 1101001111 1101010111 1100010101 11011101010 11000101111 1011010101 0101010101 1101010111 1100111101 1111011101 1101011101 1100011101 1101010100 1011010101 1101011101 1111110101 1101111001 1111110011 1101011101 1101111101 11001001101 11000110101 1101001101 1101010011 1101010111 1110111101 1101011001 11001010101 1101011101 0101110101 0101110101 1100010111 1101110101 0101010101 1101010111 110101101 01101111101 0101100101 1101010001 0101111101 1001010001 1101011111 1101001101 11010110001 1101110101 1111111011 0101110111 0100101101 0111110101 1111011101 1101011101 0101010101 11001100101 0101011101 1101110111 0101110001 1101110101 1111101101 1101110111 1101010101 01010101101 0101111101 01011110001 1111111011 1101010101 1001111101 01110111010 1111110101 1101101111 10001110101 1101010101 0111011001 0101011101 1111110101 1101100101 11010100001 1101001111 0111111101 1111011101 0111010011 0101010111 0101001101 1100010101 0111010001 1101010101 010101101 0111000111 0101110101 1001111101 1100011101 1101100111 0100110101 0111010101 1101000101 1101010011 0101011101 1111011111 1101110101 1101110101 1111110101 1101110011
  • Amount of stanzas: 19
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 510
  • Average number of words per stanza: 91
  • Amount of lines: 226
  • 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; he, to, his, it, i, what, my, you, your are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words to, the, your, in, a 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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  • summary of The Magnificent;
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