This is an analysis of the poem On The University Carrier that begins with:
Who sickened in the time of his Vacancy, being forbid to go to London by reason of the Plague.
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Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X aabbbbccddeebbaadd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,18,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 11000100100100101010110001 1111011101 1101111001 11011011001 1110011101 11101010101 1111111111 1111010101 1010110101 1101110101 1101010101 1101011111 1101010111 1111110101 0011000100 1101111111 1101110101 0101110101 101101110101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 456
- Average number of words per stanza: 89
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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