This is an analysis of the poem Sir Henry Wotton, And Serjeant Hoskins Riding On The Way that begins with:

Ho. Noble, lovely, vertuous Creature,
Purposely so fram'd by Nature... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aab bbb ccd eed ffc XXc Xec ggc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,3,3,3,3,3,3,3,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 110101010 10011110 0011101 11111111 1110110 1011101 11010011 1111001 0111111 11010011 1110001 1011101 11111101 1110111 100101110 110110100 10101010 10111110 110101000 1011111 1110111 11010101 1111101 1111110
  • Amount of stanzas: 8
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 98
  • Average number of words per stanza: 18
  • Amount of lines: 24
  • Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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