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

Sir; though (I thanke God for it) I do hate
Perfectly all this towne, yet there's one state ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaaaXbccaaddXXcceefXaagghhXiXXjXXkllggjXXXaaXeXXbXaaaajjmXmXeeaalXXmnnfXmmeeddXkXXXXooXeXXXXppeeXXkfaammXXeXXiXe
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 112,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1111110111 1001011111 0111110001 110101100101 1100010101 1111111100 11010011101 1000111101 10100101111 0101110111 10001111111 1111111101 1101000101010 1010001101010 1011010101 1101011011 1111111101 11111101111 10111110100 100101100 1111010101 11111011011 1111011111 10111011101 1101110011 10111001001 1011011111 10111110111 1011111001 0111100001 1111111111 01110111010 10101101010 101011010101 1100111101 10011000111 11101001101 01100011011 1110010100 01010011110 1111111101 1101110111 11010110101 10110100001 1111000100110 1111110011 010010011001 1101000111 11010110101 011011000001 100101010101 0111011111 10111100111 1101101101 1100100011 0100110111 01010111111 01010100111 1111100101 11101101001 1101001001 1111111111 1101111101 11100010101 11110010111 0111011111 10110011101 110010001101 1100010101001 1011001101 1010011001 1011011101 1101100111 10000101101 10001000101 1111011111 101011010111 0101010101 1101010010 10011111011 1101011101 1100010101 0101010101 10110110101 10011111111 1011011101 01011101110 0100111101 1111011100 1100011101 11111111010 11111101110 11011010010 11010101010 1101110111 100110101101 111111011000 010110011110 11001010011 1111100100 1100001111 1111010101 1111111101 1111111011 11111110011 1001110100 100011010111 1111111100 11110111100 01010110101 11110111110 0101101101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 5286
  • Average number of words per stanza: 897
  • Amount of lines: 112
  • Average number of symbols per line: 46 (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; and, for, write, they, his, in, i, more, like, as, or, none, but are repeated.

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

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  • summary of Satire Ii;
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