This is an analysis of the poem On Sending My Son, As A Present, To Dr. Swift, Dean Of St. Patrick's, On His Birth--Day. that begins with:
A Curious Statue, we are told,
Is priz'd above its Weight in Gold;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXXXXbbccddcc ddeeffXee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,9,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010011111 01010101 00110101 01011000 10010101 010101010 11010101 01010011 01010111 11010101 101100101 11110001 100100111 01010011 01001101 01010101 010101001 01011101 11111101 11100101 11110101 01000101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 243
- Average number of words per stanza: 46
- Amount of lines: 22
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (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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