This is an analysis of the poem The Speeches Of Sloth And Virtue that begins with:
[Upon the Plan of Xenophen's Judgment of Hercules]
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Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a X aabbXXaaaaccaaddbXaaeeaaaaccbbbbeebbffbb gghhaiffXj aabbaaXeaa jjjjcc X ccbb bbjjddeedd ccbbjXbbkk cccciakkaa aakkdXccaa aababb aaXaXaaaaaabb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,1,40,10,10,6,1,4,10,10,10,10,6,13,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 01010100100101 1 1011011101 1101010101 0111011101 0101011111 110101001001 01001110001 0111110101 0111010101 0111010111 0101111101 1011010011 10110100111 11010100111 1001011011 1101010111 0101001101 1111110101 1101110110 1100011101 1101100101 1101111101 1011110101 1101010111 1101010101 1101110101 01110111001 0101010101 1011001101 1101010101 11010100101 0111110101 01110100101 1111010111 1101110101 1011011101 1101010101 0101110101 0101110101 110010111001 0111010101 1111010101 1101010101 1011011111 11110101001 11001011101 1101010101 0111010111 0101010111 1001011110 1011110001 11111110101 0101010111 10110100101 11110101001 1111100101 1111010101 11011101100 1101110101 01011101001 1101010111 1101010101 1101011101 1111010101 1101111101 1100010111 0011010101 10 1111010101 1111100101 1011010101 1011010101 1111110101 0101010101 1101010101 1101010101 1111010101 1111010101 1101111101 1101010101 1011010101 1101110101 1101010101 1111000101 1101010101 1101010101 1101110101 1101011100 1111010111 0101110101 1101010101 1101010101 1101010101 1001010101 1101010101 1101010101 01010011101 1101110111 1110010101 01010010101 1111010101 1101110101 1111011101 11010110001 1110010101 1111011101 1111011101 0101010101 1101110101 1111010101 1101011101 01111010101 1001110111 1100011001 01111101 011101 1101010101 1101100101 10101011101 0101110001 1101011101 01010100101 1101010101 1101011101 1101011111 1101010101 1101110101 0101010101 1100010101 1011110101
- Amount of stanzas: 15
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 391
- Average number of words per stanza: 66
- Amount of lines: 132
- 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; of, her, to, my, she, their, each, thy, in, thou, where, those are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words to, for, where, nor, from are repeated.
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