This is an analysis of the poem On Poet-Ape that begins with:
Poor POET-APE, that would be thought our chief,
Whose works are e'en the frippery of wit,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababccccddddee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1101110111 11110010001 0100011101 1101111100 1111111111 1001001111 00101110001 1111111101 1100110111 01010100010 1111111101 1100001111 1101101101 0101110011
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 640
- Average number of words per stanza: 125
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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