This is an analysis of the poem Apology To Mr. Syme For Not Dining With Him that begins with:
NO more of your guests, be they titled or not,
And cookery the first in the nation;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011011011 1100010010 101011001011 010110010
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 164
- Average number of words per stanza: 32
- Amount of lines: 4
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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