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To Henry, Lord Viscount Bolingbroke.
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  • Rhyme scheme: X aabb aaccddbbee ffee gghhiiffjjccXgkkhhccllddmmnnXnaaaacc ggaaii eeffaaaaffjjXonnaappeeooddeehhccppii bbii hhooddeemmffppXdbbaahhllggooaaooooee aXee ooddddddnniihhiiaaaaffaaffeXddiiXofXggXnoo ooooii hhiinn iihheeeeeennooiiaappff iieeddoo ddddaappddpp i
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,10,4,36,6,36,4,36,4,42,6,6,22,8,12,16,26,10,20,10,6,10,4,10,8,16,6,8,10,34,4,30,20,37,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 010110100 11010010001 11010110101 1110110101 1100010111 1111010101 1001010101 1101011101 0101110101 11111101001 1101010101 1101000101 0111010101 01010011101 0101110101 1001011111 0101000101 1101010111 11010001101 11110100101 0101110101 1101010111 1101011111 1101011111 1101010101 1111010101 1111010101 1101010101 1101111101 11100100001 1101010101 1101001110 0110000101 10010101010 11010101010 1101010101 0111010101 1101010101 1101010001 10110111010 0101000101 1111111101 01010100101 1101010101 0110010101 0101010101 0111010001 1111100110 0101011111 1111010101 1101010101 1101001101 1011001101 01110101101 1101000101 1001010101 1101000101 1101000101 1101010101 1101110101 1100011111 1011010101 1111000101 11110101001 0101011101 1101110101 1101010111 1101010001 1110110101 0101010101 1101010101 1110010101 01011010101 1101010110 1111000101 1110011101 0101010101 1101110101 1010010101 1101110101 1011000101 10011110101 1101011101 1101001101 0101010101 01001111101 1101110101 11110100001 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1101010001 0101010101 0101010111 0111010101 11010011001 1101000101 10010110001 1101010001 1101010101 1101110101 11001010111 1111011001 1111110101 0101010101 1101010001 0101110111 0110010101 1011010101 0101010101 1101010001 1101000101 1101011101 0101010101 1101100101 1101010101 1101010101 1010010101 1101010001 1100011101 1100110101 1001110101 11010000101 01111101110 0101010100 0101010111 1101010101 1101010101 11001010111 1101010101 11110010101 1101001101 1101010101 1101001101 1101010101 1111000101 1101010101 0101011101 1101010101 1101110101 1101011101 1111010101 1101000101 0101010001 1111111001 1111001101 0101010101 1101011101 1101010001 0111000110 1101001001 11010010101 0101000101 1101110101 1001011101 11110001001 1111010101 1111010101 1101010101 1001110001 1101010011 1101010011 1101010101 1101010101 1101010101 0101000101 1101010101 1011010101 1101111101 1101010101 1011010111 0111010101 1101010001 1101011101 1101011101 1101011111 0101011101 0101010101 0111110101 1101010101 1101010001 101010101 10001010001 1101000101 1111010011 0101000101 11110000101 1111010101 1101010101 1101010111 1101011101 0011010001 1101110101 1011100101 1101010101 0101010101 1101010101 0101000111 1101010101 0101000101 1101011011 1101010001 1101000101 1101011101 1101010101 1101010111 1101110101 0111010101 1101010101 1101011101 1001010111 1111111101 0101010101 1101010101 0101001111 1101010011 1101010101 0101000101 1101011101 1101011101 11110101010 1101010101 1001110101 0101110101 1001010101 01001000101 0101110111 11110100101 1011011111 1101001101 0111000101 0110100101 1111010101 1101010101 1001010111 1101011101 1101010001 1101010101 10010101010 01110101110 1101010101 1101010101 1101000101 1101111101 1101110101 11110011001 0111010111 1111110101 1111011101 1101010101 0101010101 1101010101 0111011111 1101011101 11010100101 1101010101 11001000101 11110011101 1100110001 1101110101 0101110101 0101010111 0101001101 11011000101 1101011111 1101100101 1101010101 1101000101 01110110111 0101010101 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  • Amount of stanzas: 36
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 630
  • Average number of words per stanza: 109
  • Amount of lines: 522
  • 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; where, and, in, all, of, you, or, on, by, to, their, they, o, thee, thy, his are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words where, can, nor, no, the, or, and, 'and, by, o, describe, i've are repeated.

    The author used the same words here, there, ye at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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