This is an analysis of the poem The Right Honourable Edmund Burke that begins with:

Why mourns the ingenuous Moralist, whose mind
Science has stored, and Piety refined,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccddddeeaaffaaggaaaaffbbddhXffeebXbbiiaaaaffhheXjjffbbbbffaaaaXdddffddffaaaaccddeekkbbcclliiffaaaaffffeebbggiiiiiiddddggddffbbffaaiiiiddffeeiiffaaffeekkeeiimmkkbbaa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 168,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 110010010011 1011110001 1101000111 0111010001 1101001101 11111101001 1011001101 11110101001 1111010101 1101010101 0101010101 110010100101 1101010101 0101010101 1101011001 1101010101 1101011101 11010011101 01001110111 0011000101 1111110101 1101001101 1101000111 10011110101 11001010001 1101000101 11011100101 1101010101 1111110001 0101110100 1111010101 11010011110 01010011101 0101110101 0101010011 0011101101 1111110001 10111101010 1100111101 1101010001 1001111101 0101111101 1101110101 1101101101 11110100101 1101000101 1111001101 11011101001 1101010101 1101110011 1111010101 10001010100 1101110101 11000101010101 1101010111 111100111001 1101110111 0111110011 1110100101 1101110101 0101011101 1000010101001 11100010101 10001010101 10011001001 0101010101 1101010101 1101011111 10011000101 0101110101 11001000111 1101010101 0101010101 0111110101 1100110101 0101010101 1111110101 0101000101 1101110101 1101011101 1111011101 1101111101 1111010101 1001011101 1111011101 1111010111 1111000101 1101011101 01110101001 1101100101 0101010101 0100010101 11010101001 1101000101 01010100101 0111010111 0101010101 1101010111 1101010101 1101110101 0101010101 1101010101 1011010001 1101010101 0101010011 1111010001 1111010101 10110100101 1001010101 1111110101 0101011010 1101000101 01110101001 11010101001 1101010101 11010101001 11001011101 011000111001 01011100101 1111010001 1101011101 1101010101 11011101101 1101011001 0111010101 1101010101 11001110101 01000101011 11011100101 11001010011 0111110111 11101101001 1101011111 0111111101 1111000101 1011101101 01111101001 1101010101 10111001101 11010101001 0111110111 01010010111 1111000101 1011011101 0001010111 1111010101 0101011101 1101010101 01110110001 1111010001 1101011101 1111010001 0111111101 1111010001 0101010111 1101110011 1101011111 1101110101 1001010101 11110100001 1101000111 1101010101 1101010111 1011010101 1001010101 1111011001 1011110111 1011111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 7453
  • Average number of words per stanza: 1283
  • Amount of lines: 168
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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; her, and, though, thy, where, whose, their are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words so, mourns, though, to, we, where'er, the, where, whose, their are repeated.

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  • summary of The Right Honourable Edmund Burke;
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