Analysis of On An Edinburgh Advocate
Robert Fuller Murray 1863 – 1894
In youth with diligence he toiled
A Roman nose to gain,
But though a decent pug was spoiled,
A pug it did remain.
| Scheme | ABAB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain |
| Metre | 01110011 010111 11010111 011101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 118 |
| Words | 25 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4 |
| Lines Amount | 4 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 88 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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