This is an analysis of the poem The Critick And The Writer Of Fables that begins with:
Weary, at last, of the Pindarick way,
Thro' which advent'rously the Muse wou'd stray; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabXccbb dddee eeeffgghhggdd bbbbb ccbbbeeee eeiiggjjbb aaakk lllXee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,5,13,5,9,10,5,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1011001001 1110000111 0101010101 1001110010 1101010001 0111111101 1101111101 1111011101 1101011101 10111110101 111011010111 1001010101 1101011101 1111110101 0100010101 1101110101 01011011001 1101010101 0101010101 1111000111 11010110101 1001010101 01010010001 1001100101 1111111101 11011110101 0001010101 0100010110 0101101101 1111010101 1111010101 01101110101 0101101101 0111010101 1101110101 1101011101 1100010101 0101010001 1001000101 1101010001 1111011001 10101010101 1111110101 1101010101 1111011111 0111010101 0101111101 1101011101 1101010001 0101010111 1111010101 0101010101 1101010101 1111010101 11011011101 1101110101 1010010101 11110001101 1001110101 110110001
- Amount of stanzas: 9
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 298
- Average number of words per stanza: 52
- Amount of lines: 61
- 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; and is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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