This is an analysis of the poem To Fletcher Reviv'D that begins with:
How have I bin religious? what strange good
Has scap't me, that I never understood?... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXbcc ddeecc bbffcc XcaaXgXb Xaggbb hicXXXbX jjiXXX XhddggbbXXccaaXg hikkffaadddd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,8,6,8,6,16,12,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1111010110 1111110101 111101010 1101111101 1110110001 01111111111 1101010101 00110010111 1011010111 110101001011 1101001101 1101111111 110110010 0111100101 1011000101 0101101111 1100010111 10101011101 111101100 00100010111 101101101 10101110101 11010101010 1101010111 101101000 01001100101 1011011101 0101100101 1101100100 1101010101 1001000101 11010100101 1111110101 01011001010 1011001101 11011101 1111101010 1111111101 1101110101 1101101110 110110101 1101010111 0101101100 0100010110 1011011101 1101010110 1111010101 01011101011 1101101101 0101010100 1101110101 0101110101 1101110111 1101010101 110101110110 0101001000 100101011 011101001 0110111111 0100110101 11101000110 1111110100 1011000101 10110101010 1101010101 101001101 1101110101 1111110111 1111110001 0011100111 1110110011 1111001000 1111111101 1111100101
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 356
- Average number of words per stanza: 64
- Amount of lines: 74
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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; i, we, his are repeated.
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