This is an analysis of the poem To Robert Barber Esq; Deputy To The Treasurer's Remembrancer In The Court Of Exchequer that begins with:
Whilst Gay's unhappy Fate thy Ear attends,
Thy Heart, indignant, scorns his faithless Friends;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1101011101 1101010101 1101110101 0110011001 0101010011 1101010111 0101010001 1101010101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 344
- Average number of words per stanza: 55
- Amount of lines: 8
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; thy is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word thy is repeated.
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