This is an analysis of the poem The Respectable Burgher On "The Higher Criticism" that begins with:
Since Reverend Doctors now declare
That clerks and people must prepare ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabaaaXbXaabaXaXaaaaaaaaaaaaaaXaaaaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 36,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110010101 11110101 01010100 01010101 01010101 11011101 010001001 110111010 110101100 01001111 11010101 110111110 110010101 110111100 11000101 11010101 11010101 1101101 10000101 11010101 11010111 01011101 10000101 10110101 1100010001 11011101 0101011 1110101 110010101 110011101 11111110 101101 11111101 11100101 11111011 111100101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1257
- Average number of words per stanza: 212
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (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; and, that are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words to, and, that are repeated.
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