This is an analysis of the poem An Epistle To Fleetwood Shephard, Esq. Burleigh, May 14, 1689 that begins with:

Sir,
As once a twelvemonth to the priest,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXXabbccdeffdegghgaaiiggjjaaXXggifkkddccaXeeedaajjccffiiXeaakkllhXggghedmmhhjjnnddggifjjaammiiaaaaddaaeellaaggXjiiaaoojjXaaaiiaaaaooppllaaggglldeeaaaddkkkkXXikiXdXdifiiiimmiiaajjaaqqddnXkk
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 189,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1 110100001 10111100 010110010 010111100 10010011 010011101 1101000110 011111110 110010110 010001010 111101001 11110101 110111001 110111010 11010101 11110111 110111110 110100011 110100100 11110111 01010101 01110101 101010101 11110101 111101010 110111010 11011011 01011111 11011101 11010001 11111111 11111111 110111110 01010010 01110011 11010001 11010101 11111101 11110100 11110111 110101101 11011111 01110101 11011111 11100010 111010101 110101011 01110101 111101010 1111111110 111111010 110111111 111101010 010101010 010101010 111101011 11111100 101111111 01110101 0101101 11010101 11010101 0101001110 110111010 1101010100 111100100 11110111 01011111 010111011 1100100110 11001111 11011101 110101010 111101010 110101110 111110010 110101010 111111010 11010101 11010111 01011101 110100011 11010101 01011111 111101110 100111010 110111110 110101110 11110011 11110101 11111101 11011001 11011101 11010001 11111101 11110101 01111111 11010011 11111101 11111101 10100101 11010101 11110111 11110111 111101011 111111011 11111101 11111101 10101111 11111101 111101110 1111010110 11110111 10110111 11110101 11110101 10011111 11010101 11010100 11110110 111101110 11001110010 11000101 010100111 01110101 11010101 10110101 111101001 10010111 10110100 11010011 11110001 01011111 01010101 01011101 100000101 101111011 010110110 10110101 111100001 11110111 111100101 01110111 111111110 100101010 111101011 111111110 111100111 10110011 10110111 01110111 01010111 11101111 01010101 11111101 11010101 11010010 011100101 1101111110 01111101 11111110 010011010 111101010 110101010 111111010 111101110 01111101 11001001 010111010 110111101 11111111 101010011 01111101 11010111 10010101 01111111 011111110 0101110010 01110101 11010111 10110111 11011101 11000101 110111010 010101010 111111000 10011101 111101001
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 6849
  • Average number of words per stanza: 1263
  • Amount of lines: 189
  • Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
  • 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; his, i, to, your, and are repeated.

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

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines to, you are repeated).

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