This is an analysis of the poem The Patient Countess. - Extracted From Albion's England that begins with:

Impatience chaungeth smoke to flame, but jealousie is hell;
Some wives by patience have reduc'd ill husbands to live well:... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaabbccXXXXddXXXaacXXXXXeXXffccccccggeehhcciXfXiiiXXjjjjjkkffXXiicXllggeeXgmmccccXXXXXXeeXXaa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 93,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 0101010111001 11110101110011 1001011011111 1111110111111 11001101111001 11011001110101 01100101010101 11110101110110 11110111011101 0101010111001 01111101010101 011101110111010 110111110101110 11010101010111 10111101010101 110101010011010 001101001110111 0101010111101 11101101111101 110101011100110 10101111110111 10011100010001 11111111001101 110111011111110 10111001110111 1101011111101 11010111001101 1110110111001 110100101010101 11000111110001 111101010110001 01010011110001 0111111110111 11010101010101 11010101100001 11010100100111 010010101110101 11110010110101 11011111011100 11111011100111 11010001110101 11100111111101 01100001001101 11011101100101 10010011111101 11111100010001 11011101101111 11110101010111 01010111010101 100011111100101 111101110101001 11000101010101 110101011101010 01111000101010 11111000110100 111101011101010 110101010101010 11111101111111 11011111110101 11010111010101 1011011110111 111111010101010 1111001101101110 1101011111101 11011101011101 11111100100101 11011110010101 01110001010101 110010101111111 111100011100011 11010101110101 110111010011011 111101101100111 111011011101110 1111111101101 1101011010111 110101100000111 1101110101011 11010101010101 11111100010111 110111100010001 01010111000101 1101011111110110 1011000101011 10111010111101 11000101110101 11011101110001 11110100110101 1101011111011011 111101011010110 111011000111010 010111010101001 1100010111100111010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 5841
  • Average number of words per stanza: 1086
  • Amount of lines: 93
  • Average number of symbols per line: 62 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 12
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, to, i, his, he, it, him, she, her, that, your are repeated.

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

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

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