This is an analysis of the poem Caius Rubrius Urbanus Romae In Domo Lud: Matthæi. E Grutero that begins with:

The Father lying in Bed hugging in his left arm a pot of Mony & laying severall pieces out of it before him. the son sitts at his feet in the habit...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: a bbcXXdeeccddddaa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,16,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 010100110001101010101001010001101110100100010100011110110110111111101010 0111010001 1101010001 1101010111 1100010110 1101010110 1101110101 1101011001 0111101101 0101010101 1011010101 1101111001 011011101 1111111011 1101011101 0101011001 1101011111
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 482
  • Average number of words per stanza: 92
  • Amount of lines: 18
  • Average number of symbols per line: 53 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 10
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, his, in, ye are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word who is repeated.

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

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