This is an analysis of the poem The Metaphysical Sectarian that begins with:
HE was in Logick a great Critick,
Profoundly skill'd in Analytick. ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXaabXccddcefXgg XXhhiijjeekkbbcefXffXdccbbllbbffmmceee nnddbbiX nnoopXggbbqqddffccXXppiidXddaaddaXccXbaaffaacebbaannddddbbnn
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,38,8,60,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110100110 010101000 11010101 01111111 11011101 10111110 11010111 01000111 11001011 11011011 01110001010 110101111 110110110 11010000 1011001 01110111 11001111 01111101 11110011 11000111 11110011 11111001 11010111 11111101 11010101 11010101 01010101 01000111 01000101 1110101 01010101 011100100 110111110 110101110 011101001 101111101 11111101 1111100010 11000101 01010011 01110011 10011101 11000111 11011111 11111101 11010111 11011111 11010101 110101110 010011010 11010011 01010101 11011101 11111101 010001110 110111010 1111001 11010101 011101101 01110101 110111011 01111100 0111010100 11110011110 11010101 11011001 110101101 11001110100 11110001 11111111 11110111 11010111 11010111 11010111 01010111 11111111 11010101 11011111 11011101 11110110 11001100 01001101 11010101 11010101 11111111 11000111 010100110 11111000 01010100 1110101 10110001 11110101 11111111 11010101 11110001 10011000 11110111 11010001 100100110 01010001 11010001 11010101 100010111 01011101 11110111 11110101 11010101 11010101 111101110 010111010 11010101 10010001 10010100 10110100 010001010 111101000 10010101 11011111 100101110 11100010 010111110 111111010
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1072
- Average number of words per stanza: 194
- Amount of lines: 122
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- 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; and, he, as are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines 'em, it are repeated).
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The words/phrases for, all connect the lines.
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More information about poems by Samuel Butler
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- Analysis of Hudibras: Part 2 - Canto I
- Analysis of Hudibras: Part 3 - Canto I
