This is an analysis of the poem The Seven Sages that begins with:
The First. My great-grandfather spoke to Edmund Burke
In Grattan's house.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbaXbdXXdXXcdeXcXdXfcdebXXXfaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 32,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 011111010101 0101 010111101 01110100111 0111110101010 1110001001 01111101 011111 010111110100 011101 01101111 11111101001 110100110100 0100100100101 11011001001 110101 01011001 1111110101 01010010010011100 10111100010 0101001111111 1101010001 1101010101 001011111010 0101011001 0101 1101000101 1101010101 01110111 0101101 10011111010 110111010100
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1355
- Average number of words per stanza: 235
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, they are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
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