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Part I
INTRODUCTION. That it is as great a fault to judge ill as to write ill, and a more dangerous one to the public. That a true Taste is as... full text

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  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,1,8,10,17,10,6,16,20,4,26,12,11,28,12,20,1,1,14,18,20,14,18,4,16,32,47,10,14,16,28,22,20,14,18,34,1,1,6,6,6,6,26,21,22,16,6,6,12,4,12,36,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
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  • Amount of stanzas: 52
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 675
  • Average number of words per stanza: 116
  • Amount of lines: 755
  • Average number of symbols per line: 46 (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; of, to, and, that, by, as, them, ancients, taste, in, but, or, from, your, he, too, we, '', it, critic, her are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words not, now, with, this are repeated.

    The author used the same words 'tis, a, some, but at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines '' is repeated).

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase art connects the lines.

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  • summary of An Essay On Criticism;
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