This is an analysis of the poem To The Reverend Mr. Mabell, Of Cambridge that begins with:

Tho' great Longinus claims thy aiding Hand,
And hopes, thro' thee, t'instruct a barb'rous Land,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaaabbaa ccddaa beffgghhbbbb ffggXXffaahhaa eeffXaaa ffbbaaffaaaagg XXii
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,6,12,14,8,14,4,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 1110011101 1111100101 1110010101 1110000101 11011101001 0101110101 1011110101 1001010101 011101111 11010101101 0101001101 1111010111 1001110101 0101010101 0101010101 1101110101 1101001111 1011010101 1011000101 1101000101 01010001001 1101010111 0110110011 0101110001 110101110101 0101010101 1101110101 11001111101 1001110111 1101010001 01010111100 1101110111 11010111001 0100110111 1011010101 0101000101 1101010101 1101010101 0110110111 11001101001 1011000101 1101010101 1111110101 1111011101 01010111001 0101110101 1101010101 1101110011 1111011101 0101110101 1101111101 1001110101 1101001101 1101011101 0111000101 1001000101 0111010101 1101110001 1101110101 0101011101 1101010101 0101110101 0011111010 10111101010 10111111001 01101010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 417
  • Average number of words per stanza: 73
  • Amount of lines: 66
  • 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; and, to, with are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word now is repeated.

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  • summary of To The Reverend Mr. Mabell, Of Cambridge;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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