This is an analysis of the poem On Shakespear that begins with:
What needs my Shakespear for his honour'd Bones,
The labour of an age in piled Stones,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddddeeXXff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 111100101001 011011011 11010100101 1001100100 1101001101 1111110011 1011010100 1111011100 11110110001 111011111 1001011001 1101010101 11110001100 11110011100 11100001111 1111011101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 687
- Average number of words per stanza: 125
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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; of is repeated.
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