The Piece: "To the Skylark"
The Place: Palgrave's The Golden Treasury of the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language
The Stats: exclamation points: 6; question marks: 2; semicolons: 2; periods: 1; anachronistic grammatical forms: 9; percentage of adjectives that form interesting or unexpected compliments to the noun: 28%; gratuitous personifications: 2; bizarre comparisons of infinite and finite things: 2; coherent final lines: 0.
[Poll #1123361]
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The Place: Palgrave's The Golden Treasury of the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language
The Stats: exclamation points: 6; question marks: 2; semicolons: 2; periods: 1; anachronistic grammatical forms: 9; percentage of adjectives that form interesting or unexpected compliments to the noun: 28%; gratuitous personifications: 2; bizarre comparisons of infinite and finite things: 2; coherent final lines: 0.
[Poll #1123361]
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