This is an analysis of the poem On Elphinstone's Translation Of Martial's Epigrams that begins with:
O THOU whom Poetry abhors,
Whom Prose has turnèd out of doors,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110001 1111101 111101110 1100101010
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 147
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 4
- 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.
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