This is an analysis of the poem Satire I that begins with:

Away thou fondling motley humorist,
Leave mee, and in this standing woodden chest, ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbcdbeffebaaaabbddggcXbehhiiaaXXbejjbbccXaXhXXaakXhXiibXbeXXkkXXllbXaaXikkffcckkbbbXXlkXfXbbaXaXkXXbXXiibXccff
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 112,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 01110010100 1110010101 10001110111 010110100111 111100110011 10101000100 1101011101 010000101010 11001001101 110010011 1111010100 1101111001 111111010 0111111101 1111100101 1111010111 1101011011 1011010111 1101011100 1001110010 1101010001 1101111111 1111111101 0101010111 1101111111 0111100100 1101010100 00110110001 1111101001 1111010101 01111101011 1111111101 1101110111 1111011001 1111010111 10011011100 11111110001 1011101011 01001100001 01110111011 111101011 1111110101 1111010000 010101110 1111110111 111110101011 10010101111 0110010110 1111001100 100010110101 1100110001 1111011111 1101011111 11110100101 1111011101 1011110111 1011111101 10010110100 1101010101 11011011100 11011101111 1101001101 1111100111 1011101111 1111010110 111101110 1110011101 10000110001 11010110011 110101010 1111011101 10011010111 100101001100 1111111101 1100111111 0111011111 1110111101 1001111101 1001111111 10110011101 1111001111 1101010101 111011101101 10110011111 11011000111 1111111100 1111111010 1001000111 1111110111 11011111011 11011110101 0101011101 1111111111 11001011101 1011111101 1001010001 0101111111 0101010110 11010011111 1111011111 1111011101 1101111100 0111100110 10010110111 1101011100 1101100101 1111011101 100010000100 1001110111 11001111101 0101011001 1100011101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 5073
  • Average number of words per stanza: 902
  • Amount of lines: 112
  • Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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; thou, or, mee, and, ' are repeated.

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