This is an analysis of the poem To Mr. Vaughan, Silurist On His Poems that begins with:
Had I ador'd the multitude, and thence
Got an antipathy to wit and sence,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbbccddeXXaffddeeXXeXgXbbhhiiccbbXgdd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 38,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1101010111 1101000111 11011010111 1001000100 1011011101 11010110000 1110110101 1100110101 1101001111 111111100 1101010110 1101110100 1101010111 1101011111 1100011101 1111111101 11000100111 110101111 1111010101 0100010101 1101110011 1101111000 1101110101 1101010010 1101110111 1001110001 1001010101 1001011111 0101111011 1101100111 1111110111 1101110101 1010001101 1101111100 1011001110 1011111101 1001010111 11110101001
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1638
- Average number of words per stanza: 294
- Amount of lines: 38
- 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, by are repeated.
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