This is an analysis of the poem The Haunch Of Venison that begins with:

A POETICAL EPISTLE TO LORD CLARE
THANKS, my Lord, for your venison, for finer or fatter... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: a bbccddeXeeffgghh ffXijjXgffXkffjjjjXlhhdXggfX hhhhaabbjjllll kXcXkkii ffmmnXcceeXXmm fXjjffllXXffjjoonXggeXjXjjllXjbbXfppjjddffgg
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,16,28,14,8,14,44,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 0100010011 11111100110110 1010010110010 011010110010 011111011110 1110111111010 011010010110 111011001001 001011101010 101101011111 11001011101 1110010011110 10111010010010 11111111101 0100100101 101001101011 101111011001 111011101011 001111011101 011011111101 11001111011 111011001001 01011011111 001101111001 1011011110111 101001111001 001101101101 111111111111 111110011111 1110011111101 11001011001 11001011011 11001001001 1100011011 011001011001 111010010010 1010011110110 11011101011 1111111010011 11111100010 11101100010 1110111001 11111011101 111010110010 110011111000 11001111101 11111001011 01011011001 11101101011 111011101001 101001111111 111111111010 1100100011010 11101001101 111101001011 110010001011 11011111111 11001111101 101011001001 101001101011 11110111110 1111110110010 1101110010010 01111001011 11001011001 111011001101 11001011101 11001111001 011001011111 11111011111 01011011111 111111101001 01001011001 1110110111010 011110111110 01001001001 11001011011 011010010010 111110110100 11101011111 11011011111 101011011001 101011001010 101111011011 001001101011 1111110110010 1110111011010 11111101001 101011011001 111111111101 001101001101 110111010110 010010110111 101011011101 111011101001 11010100101 111101101001 11111011011 111101011011 11111111001 11001011011 101011001001 11101101011 1010101011001 11011101011 11101001011 11101011001 11101101001 01111011001 01011111010 101101001011 111011111010 1110110010010 110111110010 111010110010 11001111001 11111101011 001101011101 01101001011 111110010010 010011010110 11011011011 111101001111 101011001001 111001111000
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 887
  • Average number of words per stanza: 173
  • Amount of lines: 125
  • Average number of symbols per line: 49 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 10
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; for, of, to, my, it, i, and, h, he, ', with, at, his, keep, corner, your are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, an, at, 'we'll, to are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines in is repeated).

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