This is an analysis of the poem Paulo Purganti And His Wife: An Honest, But A Simple Pair that begins with:

Beyond the fix'd and settl'd Rules
Of Vice and Virtue in the Schools,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaXXbbccbb ddeeccffeagghhiijcjc hhkkkfXf bbllhhmm hhXhXh bbnn ffaekk kkXiXXcXgg hhkkjjeX oo nnoo cckXeXnX ffoXXnkk aapphhccXX hheekk hhbbqdqdffkkaaX kkmmeakkgghXkdkk ddXhhffaahhddaakknnhh
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,20,8,8,6,4,6,10,8,2,4,8,8,10,6,15,16,21,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 01011101 01110001 01010001 11111101 010111010 010100010 10111101 10110111 11001101 11010101 110111010 110111010 01111111 01010101 11010101 01010101 100100011 01010101 01010101 11110101 01111101 10111101 10010011 01010101 101111110 110111111010 11010101 11110101 01110101 010011001 10010101 11001101 01011111 11010101 01111111 11010101 11010110 11010101 01001111 10100101 100101001 11010101 100111110 110101110 11010111 110100101 11011101 11110101 11011111 11110101 01110110 111001001 10110101 10110011 11010101 11011111 01001101 01011001 10010111 01110011 01010101 11000101 11110001 01001101 010111000 111111010 11010110 1101110 110111110 101100010 11010111 1001111 11010101 11011101 10011101 11011111 110100011 01010101 01010101 111111010 01010101 11111101 01011111 11010101 11010101 11011111 01010101 01001111 11010001 11010110 10010111 11011100 1111110011 0101000100 11110111 01111111 111101010 011101010 1010010 01010101 011111010 100101010 01010101 11011101 111111011 11111101 11010100 11111101 11011101 01110011 110001010 010100110 10010001 10111011 01010101 11000111 010111110 1101011010 11011101 01010101 01010101 11111101 11011101 010001010 11011101 110111110 11010111 11111101 110110011 10010101 101111010 101101110 010101010 11011101 11010001 11011101 10010001 1101011110 100100010 10011001111 110100010 11011101 01010101 10011100 01010101 110111010 101100010 11110101 11110101 01110101 01110011 01110111 11111111 11111111 11010001 11110101 11010001 10110111 11001111 110111110 110101010 11111101 01000101 11111101 11011101 11011101 11011101 11011101 10110001
  • Amount of stanzas: 19
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 314
  • Average number of words per stanza: 59
  • Amount of lines: 169
  • Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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; and, in, or, of, her, to, wish are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words she, to, nor are repeated.

    The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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