On Reading The Controversy Between Lord Byron And Mr Bowles by Barron Field: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem On Reading The Controversy Between Lord Byron And Mr Bowles that begins with:

WHETHER a ship's poetic? -- Bowles would own,
If here he dwelt, where Nature is prosaic,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: abXaaccXcadaXeXdafXcbXfaXXXeXfdc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 32,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1001010111 01111100010 1000100011 1001010111 0101010001 1101110101 1111110101 01100001010 1101110101 11011100010 1011110100 11100010100 1111010101 11011011010 1101011111 1100110001 0111110111 0101010011 111111001010 0111010111 1100111001 01001100110 0111011111 0011010101 1001010100 10010010110 1001110100 001101011010 11011101101 1001010001 1100110111 0101100111
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1384
  • Average number of words per stanza: 239
  • Amount of lines: 32
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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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