This is an analysis of The Virtuoso: In Imitation Of Spenser's Style And Stanza by Mark Akenside.
“--- Videmus
Nugari solitos.”…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: XXX ababbcbccXdcdXbdbbccccceceeceXeXfXfXgbgbbdbddXbgbbdbdd dcdcceceXgXghhfhffhghggXgddididdcdcc
- Stanza lengths: 3,54,36,
- Metre: 100 100100 10 1011010101 0101110101 0101011101 1111000101 0101110001 0101011101 111010111 0101010101 111101111111 11001001000 1110010111 1101110101 0111100101 11010101100 110010111001 0101010101 1100010111 1101010010001 11010010101 11110011001 11010010011 1111011100 0110001111 1111110101 1101011101 011011111 101101000101 01001001111 11010010101 11011101001 010110101 1111011110 1111001101 110100101 110101100101 111101111101 0101000101 0111010111 11010010111 0111011101 1101010111 1111010111 1101011101 1110010011 101001010101 1001010110 01001010001 01010101001 1001110111 11110010101 01010111001 110111111 1101100101 010101010101 1101000101 110101100 0101110111 01100100111 1010010101 10101010111 110010111001 1111010101 010101111100 11011100001 1101100100 11000111111 0111110101 011101001001 010010011001 1011110101 1101010101 11010111001001 10011101011 100100100111 1011100101 1100011101 0101010101 1101110110 0111110101 11001010101 110101010101 01110101011 1111010101 0101010101 1011000101 0010100111001 110100111 0101000101 1101010101 110001010101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 3
- Lines: 93
Repeated words/phrases
and, or, of, look, he, there, her, now
Anaphora
he, their, her, now
