This is an analysis of the poem Thomas Rhodes that begins with:

Very well, you liberals,
And navigators into realms intellectual,...

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXXXXXXaaabbb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 13,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1011100 1101000110100 1101101000 10110101010000110 110010110 11011010 110111010 1110100 01010100010010 11100110 1011001 110110101 10001
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 481
  • Average number of words per stanza: 75
  • Amount of lines: 13
  • Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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