This is an analysis of the poem A Literature Lesson. Sir Patrick Spens In The Eighteenth Century Manner that begins with:
VERSE I
In a famed town of Caledonia's land, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a bbccddaX eeffbbaaggbbhh X bbXXcc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,8,14,1,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 11 0011010001 010010100001 0111001101 1111010001 1101010101 0001011101 11010111001 0111010100 1111010101 100101001001 1000111010101 1111010101 1101000101 1100010111 0101010001 0111010111 1011011101 11010100101 1111000101 1101001101 1111010001 1101100101 11 1111010001 11010001001 0101110001 1101001100 1101110101 1111110101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 268
- Average number of words per stanza: 44
- Amount of lines: 31
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; my, his are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words a, though are repeated.
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