This is an analysis of the poem On Lamb’s Specimens Of Dramatic Poets: Sonnets that begins with:

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IF ALL the flowers of all the fields on earth... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: a bccbbcXbddeded X fXeffeefagdagd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,14,1,14,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1 01010010111 1101010011 0100110001 0101010111 11100110101 1111101111 1111011100 01001110101 1111001001001 11010101011 1101010101 1111010111 1101010111 11011001101 1 11001110111 11011101010 11010101101 1101010100 11010101111 1101011101 01010000101 111101001001 11110101001 1101001010110 1101011111 1011110101 11110101110 11001000101
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 322
  • Average number of words per stanza: 59
  • Amount of lines: 31
  • Average number of symbols per line: 41 (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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