This is an analysis of the poem On The Same Person (Who Wrote Ill, And Spake Worse, Against Me) that begins with:
While faster than his costive brain indites
Philo's quick hand in flowing letters writes;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXaabb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 11010101100 1011010101 01010111010 1111010101 10110100101 1001010101 1101010111 1111011101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 345
- Average number of words per stanza: 63
- Amount of lines: 8
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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; his is repeated.
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