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

The title page will show, if there thou look,
Who are the proper subjects of this book.... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aa bb bb cd ee bX cc ff bb gg bb hh bb cc ii bb cc jj kk gX XX dd ll bb bb bb aa bX hh bb mm nn cc cc hh mm Xl gg hh bb gg bb hh bb Xl ll mmXbl
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,5,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 0101010111 1101001001 1111011101 0101010101 11010110110 11100111010 1111011110 1011010100 11111011010 10111111110 0101010001 11110101110 1101010111 1111011111 01010100001 1101011101 1101111101 1101010101 1100111111 1001001111 1001110111 1101010111 0101010111 111111111 0101110111 1101010101 10001011101 11000101001 1111001101 1101110101 1101110011 1101011111 1111111111 1101001001 1101011110 11110111010 1001010111 1001011101 1101011111 1101010101 1001111111 1100110110 1101011100 0101110100 1111110001 1111111001 0111011101 01011011111 1111011101 1011011101 1101010111 1111010111 10001110101 0111010101 0101110101 11110111100 1101100101 0101111111 11111100101 1111110101 1111010101 1111010101 1011110111 0110010101 1111111100 1101001001 1011010101 1101111101 1101100100 0101110001 1100010111 0111011101 1111010101 1111111101 1110111001 1010110101 1101011111 1111010001 0101010111 1111011101 1100111001 1111011101 1101111101 1101110111 1111010101 1101010101 0111111101 1111011101 1101000000 0111111101 1110110101 1100011011 111100011 110111011101 1111111101 0110110001
  • Amount of stanzas: 48
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 88
  • Average number of words per stanza: 17
  • Amount of lines: 96
  • Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, i, and, our, they, them, to, foolish are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words our, and, to, which are repeated.

    The author used the same words our, and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines them is repeated).

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  • summary of To The Reader;
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