This is an analysis of the poem On The Best, Last, And Only Remaning Comedy Of Mr. Fletcher that begins with:

I'm un-ore-clowded, too! free from the mist!
The blind and late Heaven's-eyes great Occulist,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXXX XbccaaddeeffggXbbb hhijXkaa llaaaa ggijaaeXkkeeggijmm
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,18,8,6,18,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 0111011001 01111011100 0100110001 1111110101 0101001110 10101111101 0111111111 1101011111 1101001101 11111111000 1101010101 010101101 1101010101 10001100111 0101010011 1000111111 10011001101 1001010001 101111100 1110100011 111101011 0110010011 1010011001 000100010 1101000111 11101000100 11111010100 1011111100 1101011111 1011000011 1111010101 01111010101 1111111101 0001010011 1101010001 1101001111 10110010111 11011100111 1101010111 1011001100 1101010101 1111010101 1101100111 0101010001 110001100110 01010111010 010101011 1001011001 1011001001 1101010101 1101010111 0101010100 110100011 101101101
  • Amount of stanzas: 5
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 464
  • Average number of words per stanza: 83
  • Amount of lines: 54
  • 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; your, in, his, of are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word that is repeated.

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