This is an analysis of the poem A Panegyric To Sir Lewis Pemberton that begins with:

Till I shall come again, let this suffice,
I send my salt, my sacrifice... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccXdeeccbbffaaaaXghhiijjbbXhiiccXhkkllccllXlllffaajjbbbbhhllmmhhccccllhhhhlliiccdafXhhiiaaddeeddhhlljjggjjddllmXaahhjjllddmmccffccff
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 136,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1111011001 11111101 0111010111 10110111 00111111010 011101010 01010011010 01010111 1101101101 11011101 0011010101 11111101 1111010011 10010101 1011110111 11010111 0101110011 11110111 1100110111 11010101 01111100111 111111100 1011111111 1111111 1111010111 101111111 1011010111 10010101 101010111 10110011 1011010110 11011101 1100010111 11111111 1111011111 01110101 1101100110 10110110 1101110101 00010100 1101111111 01010011 0101011101 010110111 1101010111 10110111 1011010010 01010101 1111011111 01010101 1111011111 11011101 0111010111 11000111 0111011001 1110101 1111111101 01011101 1111110101 11010101 1110111001 11111101 0111011111 10110101 0101010111 01010101 111101101 11100101 0111010111 01110101 1111110101 10110101 10111110101 10011100 11001010101 10110111 1101110101 11010101 1101111101 11010111 1101100111 11011101 1111010101 10010101 1011011101 11110101 1001011101 01000100 1111010111 11000101 0111011101 11010101 1011011111 11110101 11011100001 01110001 0101001111 1100111 1011010101 11110111 0111110101 00111101 1011110101 01011001 1111111101 11010111 11010101010 110110110 11110101011 11110101 1101111001 01010111 1100010111 11111111 1111111110 11011111 0101111111 11110111 1101001101 11110101 0101000101 11110101 1101011101 01010101 1111110111 10011111 1101010101 01110111 01011111110 111111010 1101011111 01011111 0011010011 11010101 1111011101 01110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 5437
  • Average number of words per stanza: 1005
  • Amount of lines: 136
  • Average number of symbols per line: 39 (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; thy, no, and, what are repeated.

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

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