This is an analysis of the poem The Bards Of Olden Time that begins with:
Say, where is now that glorious race, where now are the singers
Who, with the accents of life, listening nations enthralled,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXccXddbbaXacbX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110111001111010 10010011001001 110100111111010 11010111101001 10101101010110 10010111001001 10100101111010 11011011001001 0001001010011110 11010111011011 001001001010010 10010011001001 101101001110010 0010111001001 10100101010111 1010111011001
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1005
- Average number of words per stanza: 173
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 62 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 11
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; with, of, whom, in are repeated.
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