This is an analysis of the poem On Resigning A Scholarship Of Trinity College, Oxford that begins with:

AND RETIRING TO A COUNTRY CURACY.
Farewell! a long farewell! O Poverty,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: X XXXXaXXabcbcbc
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,14,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: rondeau
  • Metre: 10100010100 1101111100 1001011111 1111111101 0101110111 0101010111 1001110100 1011000001 1100110101 1100110101 1110111110 11010010101 1101001101 1100010101 0111100101
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 325
  • Average number of words per stanza: 54
  • Amount of lines: 15
  • Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • 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; and is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.

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