This is an analysis of the poem To The Lord Chancellor Hyde. Presented On New-Year's Day, 1662 that begins with:

My Lord,
While flattering crowds officiously appear ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbccddddcceeffddddggeehhddiieejjeeaajjaXhhddaaffffffbbaaaaffeehhbbddaaeebbaaeebbddjjffddeeffddkjffffaaXfiiffaabblljkbbjjaaddmmnneennddffXdnnjjeeffmmddiihhcc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 157,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 11 11001100001 0101111101 1101001101 1111111111 0101110111 1111101101 1111101101 1011000111 0111111101 1101011101 1101110101 1101111101 1111110111 1111010101 0111010111 1101010101 1111100111 1101010100 11111101011 0101110101 1001011101 1111010001 1101010101 0111110001 1111010111 1101011101 0101111101 1101010100 1101011101 1101010111 0101010111 0101111001 1001011111 0101011111 1101001111 10111101011 1111010001 11110100100 1111110101 00101100100 1101001110 0111001101 1111010101 1101011101 0101110101 11010011001 1101010101 1101110101 1011111101 0111000101 0101010111 1101011111 1111010101 11000001111 10111010101 1011011101 1011011101 11011101011 0101010101 1001100111 1101001101 1101001101 1111001001 1101000101 1101110101 1111110011 1101010101 1111111101 1101111101 1111110111 1111110101 1111011101 1101001101 1101100101 0101110101 1101011101 1111011101 0111010101 1111111101 1111110101 11001011101 1111010111 1111101001 11001011101 01001110001 1011000101 1101000101 1101011101 1101110001 1001011101 11010000111 10010000101 1111010101 11001010100 1101001100 10111011101 1111010101 1100010011 1111110111 1111000101 11010101101 1101110001 1101010010 1101010111 1101010101 1101011111 1011011101 1111111101 1001010011 1101011101 1111011111 1101011101 1101010001 0101110101 1111000101 1101001100 1101111001 1101110101 1101110111 0101010101 1011010001 0110010101 1011011101 1101010001 1101111101 1101010001 11101100101 1101100111 1101010101 1101001111 1111010101 0111010101 0111011101 1101111001 1111001101 100100011101 1101110010 11111100101 0101110101 0101110101 1011111101 1111011111 1111110101 1101010101 11100100101 0111010100 1101010101 1111001101 11001011101 1101111100 1101010101 1011110101 11010011110 01110110101 0111010101 0101000001
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 7067
  • Average number of words per stanza: 1242
  • Amount of lines: 157
  • 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; our, to, his, of are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.

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