This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet To William Wilberforce, Esq. that begins with:
Thy country, Wilberforce, with just disdain,
Hears thee, by cruel men and impious, call'd... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaXacddccdee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1101010101 11110110101 01011101101 0111011101 10010101010 1111111101 1101011101 01010011001 11101111101 11010101001 1101011101 1111010101 0111110111 010111110101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 682
- Average number of words per stanza: 113
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 48 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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