This is an analysis of the poem The Progress Of A Divine: Satire that begins with:

All priests are not the same, be understood!
Priests are, like other folks, some bad, some good.... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: AAbbcc dDbbee ffgghhddiibbff Xjddff ddXkddffllffmmlldd bbhhhhddbbnn ccoobbggllmmgghhjjggXmddaa ddbb ccddff jXmm hhddppjjbbffbbnnff ddkX hhccggaaaaffaa ddggqqXdddXqaacc llggrrhhaXmXaahhddiihhhhffss jjaa ddmmkktt aadD Xhkkhh bbmm uubbttg
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,14,6,18,12,26,4,6,4,18,4,14,16,28,4,8,4,6,4,8,4,10,8,4,10,2,6,24,8,8,8,10,22,18,18,14,22,6,17,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 1111010101 1111011110 1111010111 1100110101 1011111011 0101010101 1101010111 1101110011 0110110001 1111010101 01001101110 11010100010 1011011111 1011011101 0101011111 1011010001 11100010111 1111011101 11010010101 1101010101 0101010011 0111010101 0101011101 1110010001 1111011111 0100110101 01010111100 1111011111 1101110101 1011110111 0101010111 1110001101 0101111101 11111101101 1101100101001 10110111010 1101010101 0101010101 1101000101 1101111001 1101010001 1101110111 1101011001 0101011111 1101010101 1111010101 0111010111 1101010101 11110111110 11010001110 1001010101 1011010101 10010010101 11000100101 1101111101 1001011001 11110110101 11010011101 1011011110 1111010111 1001110101 1111011101 1111010101 0101010101 1001010101 0111110101 0101010101 0100010101 1111010101 1001011101 10011111010 01110101010 1101111101 1101010101 11011101001 0101011101 1111000101 1110010001 0101110101 01110111001 01101011001 10010100101 1011111111 1001010001 1011011111 1101001101 0111010101 0100011101 0100110111 1111110111 1101010101 1111010101 1101110101 0101010101 10111101010 01110101110 1101010111 1111010111 1011110101 1101110110 1101010000 1100010101 11010100110 1011110101 1101010101 1001011101 11111111110 11111101010 1101011101 0101000101 1111011001 1111010111 0101111101 0111011101 1001011111 11011100001 1101010101 01110001001 1110110011 01001101001 10001111111 1101011101 111101001010 110101101010 1011010111 1111111101 11010101001 1111011111 1011010101 01110000101 0101110101 1011100101 11110010101 0110110101 1101111101 1111010101 1100010101 0101010111 01110101001 1101110101 0101011101 1101010101 1101110101 1011011101 11110111100 1101011111 1101101001 1111110011 1101110101 0101000101 1101010101 1111010001 11110111011 11011101111 10111111110 111010101110 1101010101 1101010101 1111111101 1101011101 111110101 1111110101 0110111101 110111001100 1001110001 0111110110 1110110101 1111100101 1111110101 1101011101 1101110101 1101110001 1101010101 1111010101 1111010001 1111111101 1101110111 0111110101 1111010111 1101011101 01010110101 1111011101 1101110001 1011110111 1111010111 1111010101 1100010101 1101010101 1111111101 0111011101 11111101010 11110101010 1011010101 1111010111 10111100001 1011111101 1100011101 1101110011 1011111000 11010001010 01010111010 11010101010 11011011101 11111101101 0101011101 0101111101 1001011100 1111111101 1011110101 1101011101 1111010111 11001010101 1010010101 0101010101 1100011011 1111011001 1111111101 1111010010 1101010101 1101111101 1111000101 0111001101 1111010001 1101010101 01111010101 0101010111 1111110101 0111010101 1101110101 1101111101 11011101100 1111111101 1101010011 1111010101 01010101001 0101010101 0101010101 1100011101 1001011001 1111010101 1101010111 1111011101 1101011101 0111010101 1101111111 1101011111 1101010101 0101010101 1101011101 1101010001 1101010001 1010010101 1111010101 100110010101 0101111101 1111011001 1111000111 1101001111 1111010001 1001010101 0111010101 1111111101 01010110101 0101110101 0011110101 1101010101 1111110101 1101010101 10011111001 11100010101 1101010111 111111101 1101111111 0101001001011 0101011101 1001110101 1111110011 1101110111 0101010101 1011011101 1111010111 1101110101 1011110101 1111011111 1101010101 1010110101 1111110101 01110101110 1111110101 0001010001 0101001101 0101010101 1101010101 1111100101 1101100101 1111111111 1101010101 1101011111 1111110101 10100111111 0111010101 1111010111 11101011001 1111010111 01110101010 11010111010 1011100111 1111010101 1101010101 0101100001 01011011111 1101101011 0111010101 101010101001 1001010101 0111110101 0101010001 1111011001 1111010101 0101110101 11110100001 0101110101 1001010101 10010101001 1011011101 1101010101 10111101010 010101000010 111110101 111110111 1111011001 1101010101 01000101010 11011111010 0111110101 110100110101 1111010110 1101100101 1101010101 1111010111 1101010011 11110100011 0101010101 0101010111 1101001101 0101010101 1101100101 1101010101 1111100011 1101010101 1111011101 1100110101 1100110101 1101111101 0101011111 0111010101 11010111010 10110101010 1111010111 1101010101 01011101001 11011011001 1111010101 0111010111 1101110111 1011110101 1001111101 0101011101 0011011101 1101111101 1101011101 0101011101 0101110101 0111010101 1111010111 1101011001 1011110111 0101001101 10010001001 10001010010 1001011111 1101110111 011101011010 0111010100 0101010101 1001110111 1111011110 1101010101 0101011101 1111010111 11011011110 11111100100 1100110101 1101110001 0101000101 1111010101 01110101110 11011101100 0101110101 1111110101 0111010101 1111011101 0101111111 0111011101 0101011001 0111010111 11000101010 01010111010 1101010101 0101011110 0101110101 1101111101 111100011010 11110110010 1101010101 1101010001 1101010101 1101110011 1111110101 1111011001 1111010101 1111011110 0011010101 1001010001 1111011101 0011010101 1101010101 1110110101 11000011010 11010100010 1101010101 1101101101 1011010111 1101001101
  • Amount of stanzas: 40
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 486
  • Average number of words per stanza: 85
  • Amount of lines: 473
  • Average number of symbols per line: 40 (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; or, he, to, in, at, rules, his, and, feeds, her, now, you, these, your, no, had, weeps, how, not, faith, belief, for, holy, good are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words a, when, he, and, in, to, the, i, patron, grudge, as, if, him, cry, let are repeated.

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

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

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