This is an analysis of the poem Sent To Mr. Haley, On Reading His Epistles On Epic Poetry that begins with:
What blooming garlands shall the Muses twine,
What verdant laurels weave, what flowers combine,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbaacc ddaaeeff ggeeXheeiiaajjffee kkkkgcaahh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,18,10,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1101010101 11010111010 011100111001 1101000101 1111011001 01010100101 01010010101 01001001101 10010101001 1011010101 0101010101 110110100101 0101011001 1101010101 10010010101 0101001101 11010101010 11010101010 1101011111 01010010101 1011000101 01010011101 1101001101 0111000101 11001011111 0101010101 11010101001 10110101001 11010101001 110101101 1001010101 1011010101 11111101011 01010101001 11010011101 0101010111 0101110101 00110101001 11010111010 1101010101 11110010111 1111110101 10011011101 1101011101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 479
- Average number of words per stanza: 82
- Amount of lines: 44
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; what, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word what is repeated.
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