This is an analysis of the poem An Apology To The Earl Of Orrery that begins with:
Not Persia's Monarch could, unmov'd, survey
Those num'rous Hosts, which Time must sweep away:...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbaaccbbbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1101110101 1101111101 1101000101 1101001101 01010010111 1101010101 1101001101 1110010011 1111010101 1111110001 11110011111 1111111101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 514
- Average number of words per stanza: 93
- Amount of lines: 12
- 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.
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