This is an analysis of the poem An Epistle From Pope To Lord Bolingbroke that begins with:
Confess, dear Laelius! pious, just, and wise,
Some self-content does in that bosom rise, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccccdddeeffgghhcciXjjjccccbbbbjXdiaaccggbbccccckkccaalliXaaee bbggffdidcXllggmmccbbnnccXXXaXbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 65,32,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 0111010111 1110101101 1101111011 11010101101 1001111101 11010010011 0111011101 0111000101 0111010101 0101001101 1101110101 0101011111 1111011101 0111111101 1101110001 1111010101 1101010101 1101110101 11001001101 1111000101 1111011001 01001100010 1001010101 0101111101 0101100001 1011011101 1001010101 11010101101 1101010111 0101011101 1101001001 1110110011 1001010101 1101111111 1101100101 1001110100 1111111101 01010100010 11010000101 1101010101 1111110100 1101110101 11110011101 1101001111 1111011101 1111010111 1111111101 10111011111 0101010111 1101011101 1101010101 1101110101 1001000101 1101000101 1100010001 1111011101 0110001001 111000101 1101000101 11110101110 11011101100 0111000101 1101011101 1101011101 1111010111 10010010101 1001011101 10011001010 11010111110 1101011101 11110110001 1111011101 11010010100 1101011101 1111010101 1100110100 1111010101 0101010001 1011010001 01010101001 1101101101 1100111101 1111011101 1001101101 0111110101 1001010111 0101110111 1011110111 1101110001 11110010101 1011111110 11001111101 1111010011 1101010101 1011011000 1001110101 1101110101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 2130
- Average number of words per stanza: 363
- Amount of lines: 97
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, let, your, my, in are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word we is repeated.
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