This is an analysis of the poem Address, Spoken At The Opening Of Drury-Lane Theatre. Saturday, October 10, 1812 that begins with:
In one dread night our city saw, and sigh'd,
Bow'd to the dust, the Drama's tower of pride... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb aabbcddbbeeeeff ddbbee ggggggfffddccaaggcchhbbdd ccggddaaggccccXaabbaaaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,15,6,25,23,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0111110111 10010101001 01110100101 0101110101 11101101011 11001010001 110100101010 11010101010 1011000101 101111001011101010101 1101110111 11010011101 0101010111 11001010101 11101011101 1101110101 11110100011 1011010101 0111010111 1010010011 0101010101 10111100001 1101001110 0101010101 0111011111 1101010101 1111110001 11001001111 1111010111 1101110101 1000010010101 1101010101 1111010101 1011110101 1111010111 11011101001 1101111101 11000101001 0101111001 1111010101 1101111101 1101110101 1011011111 1011001101 1101010101 0101011111 11010111001 0101010111 1111011101 0111010100 10010111011 1101110111 1101110101 01010010101 01001001101 1111111001 01001011101 0101010111 1101101101 1101010101 1111010101 1001100101 11110101010 1101010111 01010010101 0101010101 01110111001 01011111111 0101011101 1101010101 1011010111 1111111101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 547
- Average number of words per stanza: 96
- Amount of lines: 72
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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; our, last, to, may are repeated.
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