This is an analysis of The Author Upon Himself by Jonathan Swift.
By an old ——pursued,
A crazy prelate, and a royal prude;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbaaccddeeffeeggbbeebbeeeeeegghhiiggbbeeeejXggeeeebfbXeeaaeebXggbbaakkjh
- Stanza lengths: 74,
- Metre: 11101 0101010101 111001101001 1101010101 11010010101 1111010101 1111011101 1101010101 1101011101 1101101101 1011110111 1101010011 1111110111 1101000111 01010011101 1111010001 1001111101 1111010110 1111010101 0111000101 1101000101 0111010111 1101100001 0100011101 0101010001 1101010101 1101010001 1101010101 0101010001 01010101001 1101010101 1101000101 1101110101 1111110001 0101010101 1110010101 11010111110 01010101010 11110010101 111100011101 1111000101 0101010101 1101000101 0101010001 01011111010 01011101110 1001010101 0101010101 1101010101 1110010111 1101010101 1111010111 1101010101 11100101 0011010101 1100010110 0111010001 1101000101 1101010101 0101100101 1100110101 0101011101 1101010111 01011100100 1101000101 1101010001 1100010101 1011110101 0101011101 0101111011 11010011101 0101010101 01110101010 1111110001
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 74
Repeated words/phrases
he, and, to, her, by
Anaphora
he
