This is an analysis of the poem To My Honor'D Friend, Dr. Charleton (Excerpt) that begins with:
The longest tyranny that ever sway'd
Was that wherein our ancestors betray'd... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXbbbccddcceXeeaacc eeffXXddaagg X
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 20,12,1,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 0101001101 1101111001 1111000100 1101110101 1111010101 1111110100 01111110111 1111010101 0101011101 1101000101 0101110101 0101110101 1101110111 1111110111 1111110001 1101110101 0101101111 1101110111 1101110101 10010111101 01110001101 11011010111 0101011101 0011010101 10111100101 1101010101 1101110101 1011010111 01001111101 1011010101 01010010111 1111010111
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 502
- Average number of words per stanza: 84
- Amount of lines: 33
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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; their, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
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