This is an analysis of the poem Prologue To The University Of Oxford, 1674. that begins with:
Poets, your subjects have their parts assign'd
To unbend, and to divert their sovereign's mind:... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeebbbbaaeebbffggccchhbbbbiigXjj
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 39,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1010111101 011100111001 110010010111 0101001101 1001010101 1111010001 1110010111 11010010101 10111100111 11000010101 110110101 1001010101 1101010111 11010010101 1111011101 0011011111 1001111111 1111000101 0111111101 1101010011 11001011101 1001011101 1011010101 1101011101 1100111101 1101010101 10110010111 1111010111 1111110101 1110111111 0101011101 1011111111 01100010011 0101111101 1001110111 1101011101 11110111010 11110111001 1110011001
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1772
- Average number of words per stanza: 315
- Amount of lines: 39
- 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; to, and, you are repeated.
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