This is an analysis of the poem To Mr. Bowring that begins with:
ON HIS POETICAL TRANSLATIONS FROM VARIOUS LANGUAGES
Bowring, the music of thy polished strains... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a aabbaaXaccddcceeXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,18,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 101000100100100 1001001101 110010101001 0011010101 01010010101 0101001101 0101010100 1101010001 0111010001 1011011001 0110101001 0011110101 0111110101 0101001101 100010010101 0101010101 0101000101 1111110101 0101010100
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 416
- Average number of words per stanza: 70
- Amount of lines: 19
- 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.
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- summary of To Mr. Bowring;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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