This is an analysis of the poem Death And Dr. Hornbook that begins with:
SOME books are lies frae end to end,
And some great lies were never penn'd:... full text
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXbXb cccdXd ddefef XXXXgc cccbcb XXXhXh XXXiXi XXXjXX kkkdXX cccXcX XXlflX aaakak aaaeae XXXiXi lllcec Xmmgmg lllllX dddjdj allXlX XXfXfe fffdfe fXflfX XnnXnX XXXgXg kkXcXc aaaXag iiiciX oXogXg eeeXel lXlmlX ccXXXk
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111101 11110101 110011010 01010 01011101 11110 10111101 11010101 01110101 11010 110110110 101010 010111110 111111110 1100111111 01010 11010110101 11110 01010101 01010111 01011011 1110 11011111 1111 11110101 11011101 10111111 01110 11010110 11010 111100100 111011010 110111110 11001 011101010 1111 01011111 010111011 11010110 1101 10111111 1111 1010111011010 11011101001 11010111 1101 111110111 01110 011110101 1011011101 11010111 11110 11111111 110100 1000011101110 010101010 101011010 00100 111101110 11110 10101110101 11111111 11111101 1111 011101001 11001001 1010111101 1010011101 11010101 1101 11110111 1111 101001111 11100101 110010101 01111 1110110101 11111 11111010 11011010 1111011101 1101 011111010 1111 1101111 111100101 11011101 111 110111011 11111 101101101 11010111 11011101 1111 0111101 1011 100111101 11110001 1111011 0111 11111101 0011 1011101010 111101110 110101010 0101 111111010 1111 1001101010 101111110 10011110 11111 110111010 11111 1011101110 010101110 111101110 1101 110111110 1011 100110111 11100101 00100111 11010 1010111 11101 101101010 100100010 111101010 01111 110111110 11010 10111011110 111011101 01111101 1111 11110101 110100 01011101 11110101 100101010 1111 101011001 0111 101110111 11111101 01010111 1101 11011111 1111 101010001 1110100111 11010101 1011 0111001 1111 1010111001 11100001 01011111 1111 01111101 1110 10111101 111111001 11100101 0101 11010011 0101 101011101 11110101 11110111 1111 11111101 10111 101111001 11010101 11010101 11010 11111101 110100 11110101 01110101 111101001 1111 11011110 1101
- Amount of stanzas: 31
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 191
- Average number of words per stanza: 36
- Amount of lines: 216
- Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; an', as, i, a' are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, the, thus are repeated.
The author used the same words the, i, a, but 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 it is repeated).
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