On A Good Legg And Foot by William Strode: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem On A Good Legg And Foot that begins with:

If Hercules tall stature might bee guest
But by his thumbe, wherby to make the rest... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbXcddaadXbXdXaXXXXXXXbbccaXeeXbXX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 36,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 0101110111 1101100101 0101001111 1101010101 1101110100 1011010111 1111101111 1101001101 0101011101 0011010101 0101110111 1001000100 11000111101 1101011100 1101010101 1101110011 1101010001 1101111100 11100100110 11010111010 1011010010 01100010101 1111010111 0101111110 1111010111 1111011101 101101010 1101010101 11010111001 0101000101 1100010101 110001101 110111011 1001011101 101000101010 0101110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1545
  • Average number of words per stanza: 283
  • Amount of lines: 36
  • 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; of, and, here are repeated.

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