This is an analysis of the poem From The Parish: A Satire that begins with:

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  • Rhyme scheme: X aabbccaa aaddddccaaeebXcc X ffgXffaahhddccee ffbbbbeeaaeegX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,8,16,1,16,14,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 1 0101110101 0101010101 10000010110 1111010101 1111000101 1111110111 11010111001 1101011101 1111001101 10111000101 1101111111 1101110101 1101011111 0101111101 1101010111 1101111101 1101110101 1110010001 1101011101 1101110101 1111010011 1111011101 1111001101 1111010101 1 0111001101 1011010101 0101111101 0111010110 1001010101 1101011101 1101110101 111110001001 1010010001 0100110001 1111110101 11001110001 1011110101 0101010101 1001011011 1111110101 11001000101 1111011101 11010010111 1111011001 1101110101 0101110101 1001111111 1011010100 11010111001 1111110101 10101100101 1101110111 1101010111 1001010110
  • Amount of stanzas: 6
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 391
  • Average number of words per stanza: 73
  • Amount of lines: 56
  • Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
  • 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; and, of, to are repeated.

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

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