This is an analysis of the poem The Dunciad: Book I. that begins with:
The Mighty Mother, and her son who brings
The Smithfield muses to the ear of kings, ... full text
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbbbccddbbeeddaafgffdXaaddhhddijkkhhbbaakkhhaallmmaacciiiibbkkllkkkkddaahhnnhhaammh eeXaXfiiccaaaahhffhhoobbkkXkiibbddffiiddbbmmppfXffqqddhhbbfgqqhhddffaaaaaakkgfbbddaammnnddbbXkddiinnfgXkqqddeebbddddddbbkkbbmXaahhXfhhffkkhhbbijkkddaaggbbbbhhkkddakaaaaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 85,234,12,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0101010111 0101000101 1111010001 1001110111 1111010111 1101011101 11010101001 1101010111 0101110111 11010001001 1011010101 1001010101 10110011001 11010110101 01001010111 1101010001 10110000111 1101010101 1111010111 1101011100 10110101001 11110100101 1101110111 1111010110 0110101001 11111111010 1101010111 0101100101 1011110101 1101011101 11011011101 1101010101 1110010101 0101001100 1101110101 1001011100 1111010111 0101010101 11000010101 0111110101 110101001 1101010101 1001110101 1111110111 0101001101 11001010101 11001011111 0101111101 1100110101 11011111001 101110110101 0101000101 1011010111 1101001101 1110010111 1101101101 1101010111 1111010101 11111101011 1111010101 1011010101 1101010101 1111110101 1101010101 1101000101 1011110001 1101010001 1001000101 1100110001 1111010101 1101111001 1111110101 11010101010 11010101010 10001110111 1101000101 0101010101 1101010101 1111010101 1011110101 110010101001 0101010101 1101010111 1001110101 11011 111 1101011111 10110101110 11111101110 1101001111 1101010111 110110111101 1101010001 1101010101 1001011101 1001010101 1101110101 1101111101 1101010101 1101010101 11001110001 1101010101 1101110001 1111010101 11011100101 11110111011 1101010101 0111010101 110110101 1111011101 1110010001 1000110101 01001011101 1101011111 1011010111 1011000101 10001011101 1101110101 1001010101 1101111101 1111010101 11110110101 1101110101 1001011101 1111110001 1111010101 1011110001 1101010101 0101000111 1111111101 11111101001 1111011111 0100010110 1101110101 1111010101 0111110101 1111010101 1011110101 1111010111 1101010101 1101110101 1101010001 1101110101 11010010101 11010001110 0101100111 1111010111 1101110101 0100111101 1101010101 1101110111 11111101001 1100010001 0101010101 1101010101 0111010101 0101010101 01011011101 1100010101 1101010101 1011010101 101001010010 0101110101 1111001101 1011110111 1010111101 0111010111 1111010011 0011000111 1101000101 0011110001 11110010111 0101000101 1101000111 1101010101 1111111101 0111001101 1001010110 10110001111 11010101001 11110011001 1101110111 11001110101 1101110101 0101110101 1100110101 10111100110 1101110010 1101100101 1111110101 01111100101 0101110101 1111010011 0011010101 0101010101 11110010101 10101110101 1101110101 0111011101 1111110101 1101011101 11011100101 0111001111 1111010101 11010010101 1111010001 0101011101 10111100111 0101101111 11110100011 1111110100 111010101110 110010100010 1001001101 0101110101 1111010011 1101110111 1101011101 1001011001 0101000111 0101010101 0101111101 0111010111 1111010111 1101110001 1101110101 1110011101 1101110101 1101110100 0101110101 1111010101 1111110101 1001110101 1101011101 1110011101 11011011110 11110001110 1111000101 0011001101 1100011101 0101000101 1011010001 1101110111 0101010101 10010001011 1111010111 11110001001 1101000101 0101010101 01001011111 1101111001 10111100010 11010100010 1101011001 10011000101 110110111 1011110001 1101110101 110101001 10111101010 1101100101 0101011101 01011000101 100111110110 1111010011 1111000101 1111010101 11010101001 0111011101 0011010111 0101010111 11010011101 1111110100101 1001010111 11011100001 1101110101 1111000101 11000010001 1101110101 1101011101 1101010101 1011011101 1101011111 1101110111 01101010111 1101011110 1101010110 0101100101 01010101001 1101010001 1001010011 1101111101 1101010111 1101111111 1101010101 1111011101 1101011101 11110101010 0101000101 1101010101 1011110111 1111110111 111100111 1101010101 0101010101 1101011111 1101100011 1101001101 0101111101 1100110101 1011110101 1111011111 1101010101 1111010101 1101110101 1001001011 1101011101 11001010101 11001111101 1111010101 11110101001 0101111101 1111010101 0101010101 1101010101 1001001101 1111011101 11101010011 1111110100 1100010101 10110101111
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 4986
- Average number of words per stanza: 863
- Amount of lines: 331
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, er, or, how, his, much, of, here, he, my, to, this, her, no, god, king, save are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, or, hence, how, this, not, and, she are repeated.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of The Dunciad: Book I.;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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