This is an analysis of the poem To His Honoured And Most Ingenious Friend Mr. Charles Cotton that begins with:
For brave comportment, wit without offence,
Words fully flowing, yet of influence: ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXaabbccddeeff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1101010110 1101010100 1111010101 100101010 1011111111 1111010011 11010111101 0011100101 1101110001 1111110111 11110001100 1111100111 1111111101 0101010111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 616
- Average number of words per stanza: 112
- Amount of lines: 14
- 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.
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