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

Kind pity chokes my spleen; brave scorn forbids
Those tears to issue which swell my eyelids;... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaaabbccddeeffdagghhddbbggiijjjjkkadadeehXXdkkgXjjllaXaaggmmffbbkkjjkkggadeeggmmkkeekkaajjeejjgndXkkgnmmbbeeee
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 110,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 1101111101 1101011111 1111111101 1101111100 011101010 1100111010 1101001101 11101110001 1111010001 1110011101 10011111010 110100010110 01110010111 1111110111 0101101110 0111011100 11110011111 1011010001 0101010101 1111110001 11010100101 0101010011 1011010101 1001101001101 1101001100 11111111001 1111001101 11110011001 11001011111 0111011101 10000110011 111001110101 111011011 10011111101 1101100111 0111100111 1011110110 00010111100 1101011101 1101111111 11011110111 10110011111 110101110 10010011101 1011101111 1111010001 1101111101 01001011101 1011101001 110101101001 010110101 01001100101 10010101110 11010111010 111111101 1101010111 1111011111 1101010011 1000101100 10011010111 11111100101 1101010101 1011100011 1011011101 1011111111 1101010101 0101011111 1110010101 111111011 0111111101 1011110101 1110111110 1111010100 0100100110 1101111101 00111110101 1101110011 01010010101 0111101011 1011111110 1001110111 11011000111 1111011111 1111111011 0001011111 1101011101 0110011100 110110011011 10111111111 0111111001 1111001111 1111011001 1111111101 0111111101 1011100111 0101010100 0101010110 0100111100 1001101111 1110100110011 11010110100 1100000100 111100111011 1011111111 11011110110 001100101110 11111111111 0101000111 1101111101 10011110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 5285
  • Average number of words per stanza: 906
  • Amount of lines: 110
  • Average number of symbols per line: 47 (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; as, in, and, to, dar'st, thou, so are repeated.

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

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase this connects the lines.

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