This is an analysis of the poem An Epistle To Fleetwood Shephard, Esq. that begins with:
When crowding folks, with strange ill faces,
Were making legs, and begging places,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccdaeeffggddXbhhggiijjjXXbbbbaaddiiXXjjXeiikkccclbjjgglllXbhhh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 66,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110101110 010111010 110101010 1011011010 10110101 010010101 11010111 11011101 110111110 110101010 100101010 110101010 101100010 0100111110 11011101 000101101 11010111 11110110 1001101110 111111110 111111110 111101110 111011110 111011010 011100110 111111110 110011110 11001101 11111111 01111101 11110101 11001101 010011101 101111010 001110010 11011111 101010011 110101110 110111010 110100010 111101010 111111111 110101111 111011010 110101010 111101110 111101010 101111010 110111010 11010101 01110111 01011111 0111100001 110101010 010101111 110111010 011101010 101101010 01011101 01111011 11010011 111111111 111111011 111010001 11110101 11111101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 2481
- Average number of words per stanza: 453
- Amount of lines: 66
- Average number of symbols per line: 37 (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; with, i, me, my, to are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines wine is repeated).
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