This is an analysis of the poem On The Same - (On The Burning Of Lord Mansfield's Library) that begins with:
When wit and genius meet their doom
In all devouring flame, ... full text
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaa baba cdcd cece
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110111 0101001 11100101 111101 101010101 110101 110100111 010101 110010111 010101 00100111 110101 01010101 111101 010111111 010101
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 125
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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