This is an analysis of the poem Excerpt From Speke, Parrot that begins with:

Parotte.
So many morall maters,* and so lytell vsyd ; ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXXabXXX XXXXXXX XXXXXcc XXXXXXX XdXXdeX XXXXXcc XXXXXXX XfXXfXX gXgXeXX XXXXXaa bXXXXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,6,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10 110101011101 1111011111 11100001001 1110101110010 111000100110 110101110111 11001111101 110100111100 1110101110100 1100101110100 110100111100 1111010100 11101111110 11001111101 111001111101 111001011101001 110100111110 111101101111 110101011101 110011101101 11001110111 11010011110 11101111101 1110100111000 1101101011111 10101011101 111010011111 11001111101 11010101101001 111001101111 111010110110 111001001100001 1010101111011 111010010001 11001110111 11010101101010 110101011111 110110011110 110101011101 1101011010011 11010111101 11001111111 11010101110101 1101111100100 1101101110101 110110101111000 1101010110110 11111100101011 110010111011 1001000110101 1101010001010010 11100100111011 1101101101111 1101010111010 1110010110010 11001110111 1110100101 11001000010100 111110111101 11011011100 1101010011 110101010111100 110011111111 11110011010 11100100111011 1110001101010 11010110100110 111011011110 110011011101 11001011011 10110 1001001101001 11100100010010 11010 10010 1
  • Amount of stanzas: 11
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 357
  • Average number of words per stanza: 57
  • Amount of lines: 77
  • Average number of symbols per line: 50 (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; so, myche, and, of are repeated.

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

    The author used the same word so at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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