This is an analysis of the poem Advice To The Grub Street Verse-Writers that begins with:
Ye poets ragged and forlorn,
Down from your garrets haste;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcdefef gbgbXfafa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,9,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11010101 101101 11011111 110101 11010111 110101 11110101 110111 11110101 110101 11110101 010101 11010101 111101 11001101 111101 11110101 110111 10011101 111111
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 232
- Average number of words per stanza: 39
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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