This is an analysis of the poem To Mr. Dryden that begins with:
How long, great Poet, shall thy sacred lays
Provoke our wonder, and transcend our praise?... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccaaXcddXXeebbeeffggaaffaahhhXee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 36,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1111011101 0111010111 11001000111 1101011111 1111000111 1101010101 1011010101 0101000101 0101111110 1101010011 1101000101 1101010101 1111010100 1101010101 1101000111 0101010101 1100010011 10011010101 1101010111 1111010100 11011100011 1101000101 1101110101 1111010101 111011101 110101110101 1111010101 1111010111 11110011101 1101010101 0111110011 110101110001 1101010101 1101011100101 1011010101 0101110111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1575
- Average number of words per stanza: 273
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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; thy, his, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word how is repeated.
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