This is an analysis of the poem A British Philippic that begins with:
Occasioned by the insults of the Spaniards, and the present preperations for war. 1738.
Whence this unwonted transport in my breast? ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X abbXcXXdXXdabeeeXecXaeXXXbcb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,28,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0101001001010011000111 1010001011 1111110101 0101010101 0101011101 1101010101 01001100101 1101001101 1011010101 0100110100 11010101011 11010101001 010011001001 11011010101 01010111001 1011110101 0101110101 01010100111 1101010011 0101010101 010101010101 0101011101 11011011101 010011001001 1010010111 11010101001 1101100101 0101010101 010010001001
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 651
- Average number of words per stanza: 113
- Amount of lines: 29
- 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; of, to, i'll are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i'll is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines now is repeated).
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