This is an analysis of the poem Jacob Homnium’s Hoss that begins with:

One sees in Viteall Yard,
Vere pleacemen do resort,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abXbbb bccccc bdedfd bghgiX ecXcXc ghXhgX gjXXXj ibgbXb XaXagX kala acXclc Xmlmno lXgaXa coXocX bbXbXb bgegeg Xikibi bhlhgh lgXgbg nXXbXb Xababa hegele Xblbfb Xlglll
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,4,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,6,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 110101 1100101 0100100 110101 01110110 111111 010001 110001 0111010 11111 01011100 00100110 010011 0010001 111101 111101 1100110100 011101 110001 1000101 11011100 110111 111100100 111101 110111 1010111 01001110 110001 11100100 1010101 010111 011011 10110111 111101 10101101 101101 010001 110001 11010110 0101101 11010100 110101 1101011 010011 010101 010101 110111110 110111 0111010 010111 0101010 010111 10111101 111011 110011 010001 01011101 100101 110100 011111 010101010 1010101 011101111 011001 1101001 0101011 1101001 0100011 111000101 11001010 111101 0100110 101010101 1011101 111100101 1010101 10011 110101 111111 1101101 11010100 010001 110101 010001 0100111 1000111 110101010 000101 110101 010101 1101001001 1010001 11111101 110111 010101 0010101 010111 011101 11010101 110111 1010111 110011 0111101 1111111 111101001 0101111 111101 1010101 101010010 011111 11010101 110111 1101001 010111 11010101 111111 111011111 011001 110111 110101 011001 110101 01010111 011101 010001 010101 01111011 01101111 11111100 101111 110110 110101 11010100 010110 11110100 111111 1101010 111101 1111110 111111 111100100 1010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 24
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 166
  • Average number of words per stanza: 32
  • Amount of lines: 142
  • Average number of symbols per line: 27 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, their, he, and, to, thou are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words peraps, a, the, and, to, thou are repeated.

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

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines court is repeated).

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