This is an analysis of the poem Drury-Lane Prologue Spoken By Mr. Garrick that begins with:
1 When Learning's triumph o'er her barb'rous foes
2 First rear'd the stage, immortal Shakespear rose;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccdd eeddaaff ffddggaahhgg ggddggddii jj kkggll ddiillmmXiillbbjj
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,12,10,2,6,17,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111010100101 111010101001 11101010111 10101110101 10101110101 11101110101 10101010101 11100010101 11101010001 10101010111 1010010101001 111000110001 11101010101 11111110111 101011101001 11111010101 1010101100101 111110111001 10111011111 10111010011 11111010101 11111101101 11111010101 11101010101 11111010101 11101011111 11101011101 111010100001 11111110101 11001010001 10101010101 11100011101 11101010101 10100011101 11111010101 11111010101 10101010101 11101110101 11101010110 111010100001 10101110101 11111010101 10111111101 11101110011 101111110101 11111110011 11001111101 11101010001 101010000111 11101110001 11111011111 10111010101 10101010101 11111011101 11111010101 11101110101 11101010101 10101010101 10101010101 11101110101 11101010101 111010100001
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 390
- Average number of words per stanza: 67
- Amount of lines: 62
- Average number of symbols per line: 49 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; they, to, their, and, new, of are repeated.
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- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
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