This is an analysis of the poem Satyr that begins with:

Were I (who to my cost already am
One of those strange prodigious Creatures Man) ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abcXcddeeXcffggbbbbhijjjffkkXlXXhhXXlXllllXjjffjjccjjjhhhffXXmmXjggggccnXXlXjjjjjllggXXlXXXnnjjggXhggddXhjjmmllbbihhballfflljjjjhhffjjllgXccffaaeefflliXbXccjjggccbeeXjllhhjjfflXXhhjjffffhillXlffXggXXjjhilllhhiffXcllgXeebahhjj
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 225,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 0110110101 1011010101 0101011111 1101111101 1001010101 1101111100 1011010100 0101111101 0101010101 1011010010 1011011111 1011010001 1101010101 1011010101 1101011101 10010100101 1001010011 10001011111 0011011101 1111011111 0101000100 0111001001 0101000101 1101100101 11110100101 1101111101 1001110111 1101110001 1001010101 1111110111 1110111101 1111000101 0100010001 1001111101 1110110010 0101010110 1111011101 11011111010 0101010101 1110000101 1011011101 1101000101 10100110101 11110101100 1111111111 1110110111 1101111001 1111010111 0101010111 1101001111 0101100101 0111010101 1101110101 1111010111 1101001101 1111010111 1111010101 1101011001 0111110111 11001010111 1101011101 1011011101 1001100101 1011010101 010010011 1011010100 11010101001 1001001101 0101000101 1111111101 1101110111 1101111011 0010010100 0101010110 1101010101 01010011101 1101000100 0100111011 0001010101 011010101 1111001101 1001010101 11001010011 1111110111 0100010101 1101011111 1101010101 1001011101 0101100000 0101000100 0101010101 1111010101 0101111101 1111110100 1101010100 1101001100 1111011111 1101110110 1111011101 1101010011 1111001101 11010000100 0101010101 110101110 0101011101 1100111001 1011110111 1001110111 0111110101 0101011101 1111010111 1111010111 1101011011 1101100100 1100110101 1111110111 1101010101 1101011111 0111011101 10110100101 1101110101 1001010101 11111100101 1100110101 1100110111 1011011101 0111110001 1001010111 1111111101 1101011101 1101001111 1101010110 0111110111 1001000111 1101010101 10000010101 0100011001 1101001100 1101111111 1101010111 1111100101 1101010001 1101101101 0101010111 1101011101 1101011101 01010010101 1111010011 1111110011 1101000101 10010010100 1001001100 1001000101 0111011101 0011011101 1111010101 1011010111 1111010011 1100011101 1101101101 1101001101 0111010101 1001 1111110101 0101010111 1111010110 1101010101 1111101101 1111011101 0101111111 1001011001 1100110001 0101010011 1001010111 1001010011 1101010001 11001011101 1011010100 1001110110 0101110101 1101010001 100111101 1100111101 0101110101 0101011111 1101001001 1101110001 0101010100 1101110001 0111010101 0101111110 1101110101 1111011001 1110011101 11001110010 0010010100 0111111101 1001011101 1101010100 1101001101 1001111111 10110011101 0100111100 1101010101 1101001101 1101000111 1101001000 1001010101 1011011100 1101011001 1101010101 010111010110 100100100101 1011011101 0101010111 1011010101 1101110100 1101011101 1001111101 0011111111 1101110100 0111010101 1001011101 0111111011 1101011101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 9939
  • Average number of words per stanza: 1697
  • Amount of lines: 225
  • 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; to, and, so, his, this, i, of, yours, my, man, for, fear, which, at, good are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words reason, from, this are repeated.

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