This is an analysis of the poem Verses Addressed To The Imitator Of The First Satire Of The Second Book Of Horace that begins with:
In two large columns on thy motley page
Where Roman wit is strip'd with English rage; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXbccddcceebbbfffffgghheeibiiiddcc ccddddcchhaaddXXccjjffddbXcckkggeXeiihhhhlliiddXkmmiiggiiccbbXXffeehhnnccdddd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 35,77,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 0111011101 1101010101 11000110110 1101010101 1111111101 1101011101 1101110100 1011010101 1101010101 1101111001 1011110001 1110100101 1111000111 0111000101 1011010101 1011010001 11010011101 0101000101 111110101 1111111101 0111111101 111011101 0001011101 1111110111 11011010101 1001110111 1011011111 0111010001 1001110001 1011011101 0101011101 1001010101 0100110101 0111111101 0111010001 10110111001 1101010101 1100110001 11111101101 1101010101 1101001111 0011010111 1111010101 1101110101 0101010011 1111010001 1101110101 1111110101 1111011001 0101000101 1101010111 1101010001 11110010101 1101011101 1101100101 0101010001 1011010101 1101000101 1111110111 1111010101 0111010010 1111011101 1101011101 1011110101 1001010111 0101011101 1111010111 0101010101 10100010010 1101010101 0100110111 1111111101 1101010100 0101110101 1010011101 0101010101 1101110001 1110010111 1111010111 0101110101 11011100101 0101010111 0001011101 0111010101 0001010111 01011010101 1101111101 1111010111 0111011001 1111001101 1111011101 1111011111 1111011111 1111110111 1101110010 1101111101 1111110101 1111011100 1011111111 1011011111 1101000101 1111111101 1101010001 0100010000 1101011101 1111100011 1011010011 1011010101 1111010111 1001001101 1111111111 1011100101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 2449
- Average number of words per stanza: 438
- Amount of lines: 112
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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; of, thy, they, nor, to, and, their, in are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words where, that, nor are repeated.
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