This is an analysis of the poem Fortune that begins with:
This wrecched worldes transmutacioun,
As wele or wo, now povre and now honour,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXXaXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXaXX X XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX b XXacXXXX X XXXXXXXX XXaXXXXX b XXXXXcX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,1,8,8,8,1,8,1,8,8,1,7,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010101000 1111111110 100111100 10011010 1100010110 11111110111 1110111111 110010111 1011010110 0101110110 11011110111 10110100110 1100110110 0111001101 110010110 110010111 110111010 110101100 110101100 1101111110 1110010110 111110001 1111011000 110010111 110010110 1101010101 1111011100 1101110111 1110101100 1111001100 1111111111 1101111110 111111110 111110010 1001110100 1101011011 1101010110 1101100100 1111111110 111010110 111111110 1101101010 1111010110 1011010111 1110111100 111011010 1001010111 1101110110 111111110 110010110 111100100 1110110110 1111011101 1110111111 010010110 1000111110 1100110110 010001111 1100101010 110111000 1111010110 111100101011 11001110 0111110111 011101111 1111101100 010001111 110000010 1110000100 111100101 111010100 0101100100 0111010010 111010110 010001111 10010 1011101100 1101111111 111111100 1110110111 1111101001 100110001 10110101110
- Amount of stanzas: 14
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 234
- Average number of words per stanza: 43
- Amount of lines: 83
- Average number of symbols per line: 39 (medium-length strings)
- 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; thou, hir, frend, of, thy, you are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, that are repeated.
The poet repeated the same words defye, alyve, fayle at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase ye connects the lines.
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