This is an analysis of the poem On A Change Of Masters At A Great Public School that begins with:

WHERE are those honours, Ida! once yow own,
When Probus fill'd your magisterial throne?... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeeffffgggg X
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 18,1,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 1111010111 11011101001 1101110001 1001000011 11010011101 1110011101 01011001001 1001100101 1001110101 0101010101 0101011101 1101010101 0101001101 1101011101 01011010101 1101011111 10100110101 1101011101 011
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 390
  • Average number of words per stanza: 67
  • Amount of lines: 19
  • Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; with is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words pomposus, with are repeated.

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