This is an analysis of the poem On The Burning Of Lord Mansfield's Library that begins with:
On the Burning of Lord Mansfield's Library, Together with his MSS. by the Mob, in the Month of June 1780.
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- Rhyme scheme: X abab cdcd deXe eXe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,4,4,3,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 10100110110010001101001011 11010011 110111 11010101 110101 110110111 1100101 01110101 110101 1 1010111 011 001 11010111 0100 01
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 95
- Average number of words per stanza: 18
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 26 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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