This is an analysis of the poem Of Judgement that begins with:

As 'tis appointed men should die,
So judgment is the next... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcb dada efef eaea ghgh ceae didi ceae ebeb jkjk jfjf eded Xblb eded djdj fmfm eeee aaac dbdb jeje kckc baba bkbk mama blbl ffff eheh eXeX eceX emek bbbb eded njnj komc kfkf pqpq maka mXjd eheh aXah okck qhqh kfkf dabaXc jeje eeee bmXm qhqh kdkd qmqm kbk
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,6,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11010111 110001 11010100 111101 100010111 011111 11111111 100111 01010101 111101 01010101 011101 01110101 010111 11010011 110110 100010111 110101 11001111 101111 01110100 111101 01011101 111101 11011111 0111010 01010101 11000010 01010100 010101 010101111 011101 11010101 010111 10010001 10101 01011001 011101 01011111 111111 10011101 010101 11010111 1101001 10010101 110101 11010111 110111 11010111 011111 11010111 0111001 01111111 100101 10111001 100100 01011101 010101 10010101 0100101 01110101 010001 10110101 111101 01010101 010101 10010101 010011 110011100 010111 110010101 010100 110011101 110101 11110111 110111 11011101 011101 011110101 111101 10111100 011100 10000101 110100 01110101 111011 11111001 111101 00111111 110001 11111111 011100 11110011 110100 01111111 100101 11010111 110101 01001001 110111 11010101 010111 11000111 111101 11010101 111101 00111111 110101 01011111 011010 01011111 110100 11010111 010100 101001001 111000 11110111 011100 11110101 110111 11010111 101011 11011101 110111 01010101 101101 10110101 111101 11010101 111101 01010001 111101 01010101 111101 00110001 110100 11010101 010111 11011101 110101 11110001 010001 11010101 110001 11010101 100100 11111111 000111 01010101 010110 01010101 111111 10010111 010111 11011101 011001 10111101 010010 11011001 010100 01011101 010101 10110100 110101 01011101 110101 11110001 010001 11000100 11101010 1100010 1101010 11011001 111101 10111111 011111 010110100 011100 01011101 010101 01110111 111101 11111111 110100 11110111 111101 11010001 110101 01100101 110100 11011001 010100 01011111 111101 0110100 100100 01111111 101111 110011101 010011 11100101 010101 11010100 010101 11010001 110101 01111111 1001111 10010111 1101001
  • Amount of stanzas: 52
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 120
  • Average number of words per stanza: 23
  • Amount of lines: 210
  • Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; his, in, or, they are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, his, of are repeated.

    The author used the same words no, here, unto at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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