This is an analysis of the poem Of Hym That Togyder Wyll Serve Two Masters that begins with:

A fole he is and voyde of reason
Whiche with one hounde tendyth to take...

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababbXX XcXccdd XefXeff dXdeegg XcXcXX XXXXXXX dXdccXX XXXXXXX XXaXeXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,7,7,6,7,7,7,7,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 011011010 10111001 1100110110 100111101 1011001001 110110111 011101111 0110101001 1001010101 1110111110 0111100101 01010111101 1110001101 1101110101 1110111110 1101000110 1011101101 1011110011 111111100 11011010011 1111111111 11011011001 1010011011 11101000101 1001111001 11011010001 111110111 11010101010 0101111100 11010110001 0101010110 10010001101 11010110010 10011010010 111101001 0101111111 01100010100 100111100111 01111101101 10011011111 11110010001 1101111101 01111010110 101100100111 10101111101 01011101101 11110101010 110100100 1111110100 0101110111 1111110010 10100101101 1101111100 10101010111 11010011100 10111110101 10010110110 010101011 10110110010 1111011101 11100101110 1110100100100
  • Amount of stanzas: 9
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 292
  • Average number of words per stanza: 56
  • Amount of lines: 62
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; he, one, and, in, his, must, to are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, his are repeated.

    The author used the same word a at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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