This is an analysis of the poem How Our Religion Is Authenticall Of The Chiefe Points Wherein We Dissent From The Papists that begins with:

Chap. Lii. of the Ninth Booke.
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  • Rhyme scheme: X abcbXXdXXcecfccgXgfbdbhbhbdXiXdXccgbfbeXeXeXfXdebXdijiiiecdXfXibXXXXXXXkXkflclelhdjdbmemeiXXXidbiXXbiXcXXedXdXcbXXXXddcXedhififbebebdXXXXXaXXgXXdXbXekckeXek
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,156,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 110011 010100101 110101 11010101 1010010111 11110110 110101 11110101 111110 11010101 11010001 11010101 1101001 110101001 111111 11110101 010101 11110101 001111 11010001 010111 01001010 111100 11010101 0100111 01110101 011101 11110111 010100 11110101 0100101 10110101 111010 01110001 110101 01010100 110101 01110111 011111 11011101 11100 111011001 11100 11000101 1010001 1110100 011011 11110100 010001 010110001 010110 11100101 110101 01000101 100001 1001010 110111 110010001 110111 010101010 010110 1110110 0101 11100101 011001 0100101100 01010 101010101 110101 11110101 10101 10100110 001001 010101010 110001 01011111 111101 110101 010101 110010011 101101 11010111 10011 0110010 011011 11010101 110101 010101001 1100111 10010101 011101 110011010 10101 01000111 110101 11011100 100101 1111011 1100110 1011100 011111 100101 110101 1011101 10110 1101110 110111 11110101 11010 11101111 1111001 110101101 110111 11110110 1111100 111111010 11001100 11111101 100001 11111101 110110 11010111 111101 1111111 110100 1110101 110101 11001100 111101 11011101 111011 01011001 110111 11101101 111110 010110101 0101101 11111111 011101 11010101 10101 0111000010 110111 101110010 1100010 11011101 111110 11111111 0110101 11010101 11011 11100100 011101 1110011 101110 1001101 111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 2386
  • Average number of words per stanza: 414
  • Amount of lines: 158
  • Average number of symbols per line: 29 (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; and, to, or are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, and, from are repeated.

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase god connects the lines.

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