This is an analysis of the poem Horace, Epist. I, Vii Imitation Of Horace To Lord Oxford that begins with:

Harley, the nation's great support,
Returning home one day from court,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaXabbccddbbXaaaeXffgghhaaaaddccaaiiiiaaaajjekllfXaaXXXXhhaammiicciiaXkXhhddhhaaaakkiiddbbhhcchhaaiiXXccXXaadXhhaaaaaaddddddXXffXXXXaaaaaX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 138,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10010101 01011101 01010110 11010001 01010111 10110101 01110101 11110001 10110101 00110001 01110101 11100011 11100111 11010101 11010101 11110101 010101010 110101010 01110100 11010101 010001010 110101110 10010101 01010101 11000101 11101101 01010101 11010011 11010001 111000111 11011101 01001101 11111111 11111101 01010011 11010101 1100101001 110010101 11000101 11010111 01010101 11010101 01010101 01010101 111111010 11010001 110101001 00110001 10010111 11110101 11010111 11011111 11010101 11011101 11011101 110100110 11110101 01010101 11010101 11010111 11011101 10010001 11110111 110001001 110100101 11010101 11010101 01011111 111110101 11011110 11110111 01010111 010101010 110100110 01010111 11010101 11010101 10110111 11010101 01010101 11110101 11010101 11010111 11000101 01010101 01010001 01010111 11011001 11010111 110101001 11110101 010101011 11010111 01110001 10110101 11010001 01110101 01010001 11010101 11010101 011111100 101001000 11111101 11010111 01010100 010101010 11010101 01011001 010100010 110101001 11000101 11110101 11010101 11010111 01010101 11100101 11111101 11011101 11110111 11110110 11010101 11110111 11110101 01111101 11110111 11110110 11011111 11010011 101101110 101111010 01000101 11000100 010011101 11111101 11010111 11010010 11111111 11111111
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 4781
  • Average number of words per stanza: 882
  • Amount of lines: 138
  • Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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; his, he, to, ', i, and are repeated.

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

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ' is repeated).

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