This is an analysis of the poem At His Execution that begins with:

I am made all things to all men--
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  • Rhyme scheme: AbbcC AddCc ecaaaecaXaacaca
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,15,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11111011 101011 011111 100111 11101001 11111011 0101100 1001101 11101001 1101011 111101 111111 1101101 011111 10111011 111111 1111001 11011011 11111011 111101 110101 11111111 01111001 0111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 188
  • Average number of words per stanza: 38
  • Amount of lines: 24
  • Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; all, to are repeated.

    The author used the same word i 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 lord, men are repeated).

    The poet repeated the same word lord at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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