This is an analysis of the poem To My Honoured Kinsman John Driden, Of Chesterton, In The County Of Huntingdon, Esq. that begins with:

How blessed is he, who leads a country life,
Unvexed with anxious cares, and void of strife! ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccdddeeccfffaagggghhffcccciiiggiiggggiijjhhggjjffjjffffeeffcccklggmmffhhcckknnnjemmffccXgffggaaoofffooeeffppmmiijjggiiggffggqqffmmnneXejjggffffiijjccjjiiggggggcccccjjeehXfffffiiffggnnggeeklkcckkhhjjffggddd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 209,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1101110101 10001011101 11001110101 0101110101 1101011101 100101110001 1011010101 0101011101 1101010101 0111110101 11010010101 1111011101 1111001101 1111011101 0101010101 111101010011 0101110101 10101000001 1101010101 1100010101 11110111001 11110010101 1111010111 1111010101 1011010011 110001011101 1111110101 1101010101 1111011101 11001011101 1111110101 110101110001 110101110001 1111110101 1011011101 1101010011 00101010101 1111010101 0100011101 10111000111 1001010101 0101010101 1111010101 1111110101 1100111101 110111001001 11001010101 1101000101 1101011101 0101001101 1100111101 0111010101 101010000100 1101110101 0101010001 11001011101 11011001001 01001110101 1110010101 110101110010 11110101010 0101010101 1001011101 11010100111 0101111110 1101010101 11011111001 1111010100 111111001001 1101010111 1111110101 1101010101 0101011001 1101110101 10010011101 0110010101 0101010101 0101011101 0101110101 1101110101 1101100111 1011010101 110111001101001 1111001101 1111110101 1101011101 110011101011 1111110111 1101110101 1111010101 1101010011 1001011110 1101010101 0111110101 1101011101 0101010101 1101110101 1111010101 1111010101 11111100001 0101011101 11001010101 0101110011 00101010101 0101010011 1101010101 11001010111 0101110101 0101110101 01010011101 1101110101 1111010101 10110101001 1101110101 11001110001 110001010101 1111111101 1101010101 1101010001 1101101101 11010010101 1111111101 1111010111 0101010101 0111011101 1111010001 1111010101 1101010101 110110001010 11011101010 1101011101 11010101001 10101011101 010010101011 0100111111 1110010101 11110100101 1111011100 111101010101 1011111001 1111110101 1101111101 0111010101 1001010111 1101110101 1001110111 0101110101 0101010101 1101110001 010101001001 1101110101 1001010101 0101110101 11001110101 1101010101 0111110001 1100011101 01110111001 1101011111 1101011101 0101000101 0111010001 110101010101 10101110001 1100010101 010101110101 1101011111 1111010101 0101010001 10011110001 01001011101 1100110001 0111010101 1111110101 0101110011 01000011101 110101111101 1111111101 111101010101 1100011111 0101010101 100100100101 1011110101 10001010101 0101000101 1101100101 1111100101 11110010101 0100111101 1101000101 1101010101 1001010101 0101011100 1101010111 11010001001 1111110101 1001001101 1110100101 01000010011 1111110111 1101010101 01001101001 1001110101 1001010001 1101011101 1111011101 11011011101 01010100101 1101010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 9579
  • Average number of words per stanza: 1652
  • Amount of lines: 209
  • 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; and, to, your, he, each, you, with, for, peace, of, they, in, i are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words as, to, nor are repeated.

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