This is an analysis of the poem The Progress Of Taste, Or The Fate Of Delicacy that begins with:

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  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,130,1,136,1,147,1,201,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
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  • Amount of stanzas: 8
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 2778
  • Average number of words per stanza: 487
  • Amount of lines: 620
  • Average number of symbols per line: 35 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; our, and, his, to, as, who, it, with, their, such, her, thy, or are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, let, his, no, what, and, for, to, i, see, shall, if are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines them, him, one, it, on't, her are repeated).

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  • summary of The Progress Of Taste, Or The Fate Of Delicacy;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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