This is an analysis of the poem Thoughts On Imputed Righteousness - Occasioned By Reading Theron And Aspasio : Part Ii. that begins with:

To shun much novel sentiment and nice,
I take the thing from its apparent rise;... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcd eadffgg ggggddcceehhffiijjff dbXdaXeedkbkedladl
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,7,20,18,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 0111010011 1101000101 011110 0101 11 010100 01 0101010001 1101010111 1101010101 1111010001 1111010101 1101011101 0101110101 0010010101 01010101010 11010001010 1101110101 1101011101 1111011101 1110010001 1101110100 1111000101 1101011101 0111110001 1101110101 01010110101 1101010110 0101010101 0101010101 1111010001 1011010101 01 100 11101 0111010011 01011100010 1111111101 0101000101 1101110101 100 10 00 1 01 1001010101 0 1010 10101
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 397
  • Average number of words per stanza: 71
  • Amount of lines: 49
  • Average number of symbols per line: 31 (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; of, life, could are repeated.

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

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