This is an analysis of the poem To William Mitford, Esq. that begins with:
Mitford, the candid Critic of my lays,
Who oft when wild my careless Muse would sing... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaabbacbcbcb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1001010011 1111110111 1011110101 0101011101 1111010111 11001010101 010100101001 01010101001 1101010101 1111101001 1011110101 1101010001 0100010101 1001110001
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 625
- Average number of words per stanza: 105
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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; to is repeated.
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