This is an analysis of the poem In Praise Of The Hemp-Seed that begins with:

Tis paper (being printed) doth reveale
Th' Eternall testament of all our weale:... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXaaXbXcXcbbddXdXXeeddaXffXXXXXXXXddgghh ddiiXiXc dX jjee aahhXcddXk kkddXhXX eXddXaldd aaXbddhhXla
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 40,8,2,4,10,8,9,11,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1101010110 11001000111 0100010001 0011010101 01011100100 01011111111 1010011000 1000110100 1000110000 1001010100 11011101010 110001010010 10110011101 11001100101 1001000100 01011001001 01010110 1001010000 1101111101 1101110101 1101010111 10111011111 1111010100 101001010100 11010111010 110110101010 1101000101 0101010111 110101100 100101100 1001010100 010011010 1010010000 10011010 1101010100 11001010010 0100110101 0100001111 0101001101 11001011101 01010101010 10111110110 10110101010 10001101110 0101001011 10110101010 1001010100 0100110101 110001001001 0101110101 110101111 1101010111 1001110111 0111110101 01010010101 1111110011 1101011101 1101010101 1011100110 110101110 0101011100 10001101101 1101011000 1101011101 1101110101 1101011101 110101011 1011010100 0101010100 1111011111 11111101011 1101100111 1111100111 1111010101 01010101010 11110001010 0101011000 110010001100 1101010111 1101010101 10110011001 110100100010 10110001010 0100110110 01001110011 0100100101 0100010101 0101110011 01011111001 1011010110 010101010
  • Amount of stanzas: 9
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 415
  • Average number of words per stanza: 63
  • Amount of lines: 91
  • Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, and, sir are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words saint, with, the are repeated.

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

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