This is an analysis of the poem Dedication: Sent With The Second Edition Of The Poem To His Majesty The King Of Prussia that begins with:

Imperial Bard! if while my humble strain
Thy precepts sung to Albion's warlike train,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeeffXd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Metre: 01001011101 1111010111 0101010101 11001110101 0100110101 11010001101 1101010101 0101001001 111101101 0101010111 1100110111 0101001001 010100111000 0101001101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 598
  • Average number of words per stanza: 99
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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