This is an analysis of the poem Epigram : The Cottager And His Landlord. A Fable (Translated From Milton) that begins with:

A Peasant to his lord yearly court,
Presenting pippins of so rich a sort... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccddaaXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 010001101 0101001101 1101010101 0101111001 0111010101 1101011111 0101010111 1011110001 1111111110 0101011101 11001010101 1111110111
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 512
  • Average number of words per stanza: 95
  • Amount of lines: 12
  • 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; my is repeated.

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