This is an analysis of the poem A Monumental Column that begins with:
TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE SIR ROBERT CARR, VISCOUNT ROCHESTER, KNIGHT OF THE MOST NOBLE ORDER OF THE GARTER, AND ONE OF HIS MAJESTY'S MOST HONOURABLE... full text
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- Rhyme scheme: a b X Xc d c d e f ggbbhhiijjkkbbccXcggcckkiiXgccbbggcceebbccgellldccggmmmccbbcXldllbbeejjXXcclljmaaaabbkkccnnccbbffmmjjlljjjjnnnnkkccjjeellooiimmllXcbbXmggmmbbggcckkccjjggkkddllbbccmdbbddbbjjggccllkkfkkmmmmccbbhhcXllbbccccmmmjXjggjXkkoobbhhiinnjmkfnnX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,1,1,2,1,1,1,1,1,328,2,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 001100110110110100110100010110010011001010 11101 1010110100011111101110010101111101011110110101000111111101101010111001111011010101011110010111001000101000110010110101101011101111111010111101011001101011110101001001111010011011110101010111111110010101001010111111111111101001101011101110101111110010010110100011101001010110110100101011100101010 11001110010010 100101010010 10010100100101010111111001000010 1101001010 110 0101010 0100100 0100010101 101101010 1001110111 1100110101 1011010111 1101011101 1011011101 11111101001 1011111011 1111101101 11110111001 1011110001 1111010101 1111110111 0101110101 0111010101 1111011110 010101101 001100011 1111011101 1111111111 11111001011 1101000101 10110011001 100100101010 00110101010 100111111100 01110101010 1101010101 1001110011 1011100111 01000110101 011101010 0101011101 0101000101 10110001001 0111110011 1101110111 11010001001 111111110001 0011010101 1101010101 1111011101 1101010111 1101010111 1101111101 1110111111 1110110100 1011010101 1101010111 1101010111 1011100111 110011010100 0101010101 1101010101 1111110111 0101010111 1111100101 10010111111 11001010101 1001011111 1111011101 1001010100 0101011101 11110111001 1101011111 10011011011 010010100101 1101110111 1111000101 11011001101 10111011010 010111110010 11111001001 1111010101 1101011111 10010010001 1101100001 01011110101 11010111001 0111100111 11110101001 10111010101 1100110101 0101111101 10110110111 1111010111 1011011101 1101011101 1111010101 0101011101 11001111100111 1111110001 0100110001 1001010101 101101011110 10110111010 1100010011 1111010111 1100101111 0101010001 1101001101 0101010111 1111010111 11111101001 0100110100 11110010001 1011010111 1101110110 01011101101 1110010111 1101010101 1101010111 01010101001 1111011101 11110111101 1111110101 1101011101 1101111001 1111111111 0111111101 0111010011 1111100111 1101110111 1111101101 1001011100 1011010011 1111111101 0101101111 1111110010 0101010001 1111101101 1101011111 0100110010 1011110101 010111010 1110111101 11011101110 1101110101 1100010101 1001001111 101011010 111010111 1101111101 1100011100 1101101101 0011001101 1111010101 01011110101 1111111101 0111010100 1001110111 1010011111 1000111011 0101010001 11110100010 110110101110 1101010111 1101100111 10110101110 10110110010 1011110100 1101010111 1101010101 110101000 10101001111 110011101110 10010111110 111101010010 1101111111 1101010001 1101010101 00010000101 11110101010 110101100010 1101010101 1011110101 1000010101 01011100011 010111001001 0110101101 1011010100 1101001101 0001001101 0111001010 1101010011 11001011111 1110101001001 110111011 11111101001 10101011001 1111001101 1011111111 11011101001 1101011101 0101001100 1101011101 0101010111 1111111101 1111011111 1101110111 0001011101 1001001001 1100010001 110010011 0110011101 10110100111 0100010101 0101010011 11010110101 1001000101 1101011101 0111011111 01010101001 0101000111 11110110101 01001110101 1011010101 1101010101 111101101 1011110101 0101010101 11011011010 11110001010 1101010011 1101011101 1101010101 01010110111 0101100101 0101010100 111101101011 10001110101 10111101100 01011101010 01101011101 010000010 11011010111 1001110110 0101011101 0101110111 1101010111 11001000111 1001001111 11110101101 1011011101 1101010101 11110101101 1101011101 1111110101 0100010101 1111110011 1100010001 0101111101 00101010111 001100101001 1111010101 11001011111 10111110101 0101110111 11110000101 010101011 11011111101 010100101 1111111101 1011110011 1101111100 11010001001 1010110111 1101010101 10111010111 10011010011 11011110101 1101010101 011101011011 01110101001 1110000101 1111101101 1011110101 1110111111 0100101111001 0111110101 1101011101 1111010101 11101111001 1011010111 1101010111 1101111101 1101100101 1111000101 1101010111 1101111111 100101011101 01001101100 0111110011 101110110010 1001110010 1011010011 0101110111 1101010101 1011110011 10101101111 1111110111 01110111001 1001010101 1001011111 0101010101 01011011101 0101011111 1111011001 1101110101 1001110101 01010011001 1101111101 1111100101 0101010011 1011011111 1111011111 11110010101 0101010101 1111101101 0101001101 1101010111 11110101001 1101111101 0101101101 1101111011 11110001101 0101011111 11000110 011000101100110011010
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1509
- Average number of words per stanza: 269
- Amount of lines: 342
- Average number of symbols per line: 48 (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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, that, to, his, and, my, your, i, you, with, not, in, him, leisure, for, this, both, noble, most, nor, who, our, her, had, she, thou, he, it, they are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words his, he, we, who, the, to, and are repeated.
The author used the same word a at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines her is repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase to connects the lines.
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