This is an analysis of the poem On Bishop Burnet's Being Set On Fire In His Closet that begins with:

From that dire æra, bane to Sarum's pride,
Which broke his schemes and laid his friends aside,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbaaccddeeXXbb ddff
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 0110110101 1101110101 1111110001 1111110101 1101111101 1101000101 1101110101 0101000101 10101010101 1011000111 11010111010 11011101110 11010101110 11110101010 11010001010 11010111010 10010110101 1101001101 0101001101 1111000101
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 449
  • Average number of words per stanza: 80
  • Amount of lines: 20
  • Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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; and, his are repeated.

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