This is an analysis of the poem To Sir Henry Wotton Ii that begins with:

HERE'S no more news than virtue ; I may as well
Tell you Calais, or Saint Michael's tales, as tell... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaa bbb cdd eee ccd fff fff eXXXaaa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,3,3,3,3,7,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 11111101111 11011110111 1111010001 11011011111 1101011111 0101111111 1111010100 0111010101 11010111111 0011111101 1101011101 10011001011 0111010100 0101110100 1100110110 0101000101 10111011111 1001100101 0111011101 1001011011 1011111111 1111110101 1101010101 1111000111 1111010001 1111111101 1110100101
  • Amount of stanzas: 9
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 133
  • Average number of words per stanza: 24
  • Amount of lines: 27
  • 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; as, to are repeated.

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