This is an analysis of the poem Dryden And Pope that begins with:

Of our Laureate we now do sing-
His youthful muse had daring wing,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaXbbbbbXX ccddaa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,6,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 011001111 01011101 1101100 11110000 11110101 11010001 01011101 10010101 111010100 1001010100 10010101 1010101 01110001 0101111 11011101 11110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 270
  • Average number of words per stanza: 49
  • Amount of lines: 16
  • Average number of symbols per line: 33 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.

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