This is an analysis of the poem To The Honourable Charles Montague, Esq. that begins with:
Howe'er, 'tis well that, while mankind
Through fate's perverse meander errs,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab bcXc bdXd bebe cbcb fcfc gggg hihi bbbb jiji
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 100111111 110010101 11010101 0100111 10110101 11110101 11010101 01010111 010100101 110011010 110101100 110101010 01011101 110001010 10011101 0100101010 01011111 01110101 11110101 01010111 111100101 11001101 01010001 00010101 11011101 01011101 10110101 11011101 11011101 00111101 11111101 01110111 01111111 11100011 01001101 01010101 11011101 01011111 01111101 11010101
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 139
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 40
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; his, he, to, we are repeated.
The author used the same word our at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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