This is an analysis of the poem From 'she Stoops To Conquer' A Song that begins with:

Let school-masters puzzle their brain,
With grammar, and nonsense, and learning;... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: ababcXXcX aXaXdadaX efefgXgcX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,9,9,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11101011 010110110 01011001 110010010 101011001 110110110 11111111 111010010 101010 11001011 010110010 11001001 111110010 11111011 1010110010 11001101 111011010 101010 11101001 111010110 11111011 1011010110 11111111 110111110 10101001 1010011010 101010
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 332
  • Average number of words per stanza: 57
  • Amount of lines: 27
  • Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; their, and, your are repeated.

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

    The poet repeated the same word toroll at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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