This is an analysis of the poem On The Yong Baronett Portman Dying Of An Impostume In's Head that begins with:

Is Death so cunning now that all her blowe
Aymes at the heade? Doth now her wary Bowe... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaXXbXccXdeXXcffddgebbXXdXXbXeXXgeXXeeXcXXeeXb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 46,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 0111011101 10101110101 1101110001 11110100001 1111110101 0011011111 1100010111 1101011111 1011010111 0101110101 1011011101 11011001000 01011111010 1101011101 1111111101 010011000111 1101010101 0110010101 1111011100 1101011111 1110011101 1100100101 0100010010 1101001100 1100000111 1111011111 1011010101 0101111101 1011011100 1101010111 1111000111 1111111101 1011010100 1001010111 1101010101 1101010001 1101011101 0101011101 1111010111 0101111101 1111010100 1111101100 11011011111 1101010011 1011011101 1101011101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1997
  • Average number of words per stanza: 363
  • Amount of lines: 46
  • 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.

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