This is an analysis of the poem The Borough. Letter Xxiv: Schools that begins with:

To every class we have a School assign'd,
Rules for all ranks and food for every mind:... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeeddeeffggaaddbbbbaahhiiaagghhaaeb ecXccjjbbaaddggaakXggeeaaffc ccaaddaaddiiaaggiiccffaaggbbggaa aeecc gga Xellaaccgglleeddccaaaammffddda aggdnffddeehhggbbggooccffiiaXggddjjXaaaabbiiaa dddeeggeepiiiaaqqggdded ejjggeeaaeegi ghhaaeeffggggaaggddaa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 42,28,32,5,3,30,46,23,13,83,145,23,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 01001110101 11111111001 1110110101 1101110101 1101110101 11011010111 1001010111 1101110101 1001010101 1101010001 0101110101 0111110101 1111010101 1101110101 0101110100 1001010111 1011111111 01011110001 0101011101 1101010101 1101011101 0111010101 1011010101 1111110101 1101001111 1001110110 0101010101 1111010101 1011010101 1101011111 1101111111 1111111111 01010001001 1101010101 101010101 0111010011 1101010101 110010101011 1111010001 11010000101 0101010101 111101110 1 1101110111 10110101001 1111111101 0101010101 1111111101 1101111101 0101110101 1101010101 1101010001 1111010101 1101001011 01111100101 1101010101 11111010101 1101010101 1101010011 0101010011 1011011011 1101110101 1111010101 1101001111 0101010101 1101001111 1101110111 10011110111 1011010101 1101110100 1 0111110101 0101100101 1111100111 1101000101 0101110111 111010000111 0111111101 1101110111 0101110001 1101011101 1101010101 11010101001 11111100111 1101110101 0111010101 1111001101 1101010101 1101010101 0101000101 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1101110101 0111010101 1111010101 1101011101 1100001110001 01011100101 0101010101 0101010101 0101011101 0101111101 0101111101 1111110101 1101110101 01010010101 1101010101 0101111101 1101110101 0111011101 10011000101 1101110101 1101010111 0101010111 1101010101 10011111001 0101010101 11010100111 1011010101 1011110001 11110101011 1111001101 1101110101 0111010101 10110010101 011010100101 01 1110111101 1111110101 1111000101 1011011101 11010100101 1101011111 10010100101 00110001001 1111001101 0111100101 1001011001 1101110110 1011010101 0101110011 1101110101 0101011101 1101011101 1101010001 1101010101 01001010101 1011110101 00110101001 1111110101 11010100101 10111100101 0101000111 1101010111 0101010101 1111001101 11001010101 110101101010 110010111010 1110110101 1111010101 1111010101 0111000101 1100100101 01011100011 1101011001 1111000111 1001110001 0101011001 0101010111 1101010101 1101011101 0111010111 11110101001 0001000101 1101010101 1100010101 01010101011 1011010101 1101111001 1111010111 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  • Amount of stanzas: 11
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1876
  • Average number of words per stanza: 339
  • Amount of lines: 477
  • 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.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, by, she, here, in, so, he, his, to, your, with, their, they, of, for, i are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words her, though, as, take, their, and, for, the, pleasures are repeated.

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  • summary of The Borough. Letter Xxiv: Schools;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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