This is an analysis of the poem On Simony that begins with:
Saw'st thou ever Siquis patcht on Pauls Church door
To seek some vacant vicarage before?... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabcddaaXXXXXXaaeebc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 20,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 11101011111 0111010001 1101011101 1111010100 1111011101 1001110011 1101111101 0101001101 1101110101 1001011100 1011111111 11110010101 0101010101 1111000100 1101011101 1101000111 1111110011 0100011111 1101011100 1011110100
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 868
- Average number of words per stanza: 156
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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; and, thy are repeated.
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