This is an analysis of the poem English Bards And Scotch Reviewers (Excerpt) that begins with:

Time was, ere yet in these degenerate days
Ignoble themes obtain'd mistaken praise, ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeeffgghhggiiccaaaXddhhjjaakXddgg cchhbbffbbggXhbbllkkmm ddgghhhhddbbeeddbbdX ccgg ffeeaannmmggaabbhhooddddXcXehhhhaaccffjjllkkcc kkllkXaaddeelXllaaXXXjjggaahhbb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 40,22,20,4,46,31,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 11110101001 0101010101 111101011 1101010111 0011110101 1111110111 1001010111 1011011101 0101010101 1101010101 1111010101 0111011101 11001111101 11011101001 1111110101 1101010111 10111100111 1111001111 1101111101 0101011101 01111100101 1101100101 0101010111 1101011101 1101010101 11010101110 11010100101 01011010111 1101011111 0111010011 0101010101 1011011101 1111010001 1101010101 10101110101 1101110101 1101010001 0101110001 1101110101 01010101001 010100101001 1101010111 1101010001 1111011101 1011011111 1101010101 0101010101 11001010101 01010010101 0101110101 1101011001 1111110001 11010101010 1111000111 1101010101 0111010101 11110011111 1101010111 1111001101 0101011101 10010000101 1101010101 1101110101 0101010100 1101111001 1101011101 0101010101 0101000111 1111110101 1101011101 1100010110 0111110111 1101010101 1111110101 1101010101 111111111 1111011101 1101111101 1011110101 01000111001 1011010101 11011010100 1101111101 1101010111 1101010101 0111010101 0110110111 1101011101 1101110011 1111010101 0101010101 0101000100 100110000101 1101011101 0101010111 11001010101 1101110110 1111010111 0101010001 0101010101 0111010111 11001110101 1001110101 0101010101 1111010101 0101110101 01011101010 01010001010 1101010011 01001011101 10010101100 11010101101 01010111100 1101010011 110110111 1111010111 1101010111 01001000101 1111010101 0101011101 11111101001 11110001111 1101011101 0111110111 1111010101 0101011111 1001010111 11110011101 01010101010 11011100010 0111110111 101101011101 1101010011 1101000101 0101010001 11110001001 110110111110 110111010100 1111110101 1101110101 0101110101 0101010101 1101010001 0101000101 1111010101 01001001010010 0111011101 1101010101 1111010111 11010110001 1111010000100 01010100010 1101010101 0101110101 1101000111 1110000101 0101010101 0111010101 1101010101 0111010011 1100110101 1101000111
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1078
  • Average number of words per stanza: 179
  • Amount of lines: 162
  • Average number of symbols per line: 46 (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; on, their, of, her, thy, in, and are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, these, the, well are repeated.

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