This is an analysis of the poem The Dunciad: Book Ii. that begins with:
High on a gorgeous seat, that far out-shone
Henley's gilt tub, or Flecknoe's Irish throne,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbcXbbddXb eeff bbeebbddee eeaa gghhbbaabbcceeaaffcc iibbXeccaaeeXdeeffhhjjeeXeccccbX bbcceekkbX bbccggaaffddlldd eeffccffkkff aammffaajj aaeedXffaX ddeeXcnnnnbbbbaa ffffkkbbXX oobbffeeddhheebbaa bbkkXi aaccfX ffddddbbXXiimm aaccppffqq bbffggggeerrdX aa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,4,10,4,20,32,10,16,12,10,10,16,10,18,6,6,14,10,14,12,22,14,8,4,4,6,10,8,8,16,6,14,12,51,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1101011111 1011110101 1111010101 11010111010 1101011001 0101010101 1101110111 1111110111 0111100101 1111011111 1001110101 101001111111 1011111001 0101110101 1001001101 101101010001 1101010101 1101010101 1101011101 1111100101 0101001101 01010010101 01010100010 111101110100 1111000101 1111110001 01110011111 10110110101 1111110001 0101010101 0101000101 0101000111 101100100101 1101010101 0101110111 1101010101 111111011 0011100111 1101111111 110010101001 1101011111 1101001101 0111110101 0101010101 1101111101 1101010111 1011111101 0111010001 11110111001 0101110101 1101010101 1001111101 1101000101 1101110111 0101010111 1111010101 1101011001 1101101101 0111011101 1101011111 1101010101 1111011101 1101110101 1111111111 11001010111 1101110101 0101001101 11101010101 1001011101 11110101101 1101110101 0101010101 11001011101 1010111101 010101001100 10001010011 1101010101 0101000101 1111111101 1111110111 1110010101 1001010011 0110011111 1001010111 1001110101 1011011101 11010010111 1111010101 1101010001 0101000101 0111110101 1011010110 010111001 1100010101 10011101001 1101100101 1101010101 0011010101 10001000101 0111110001 1111010111 11110011101 01110010101 1101010101 100110001001 100111101101 1001010101 1101100001 1101010101 1011011101 0101010001 1101110001 0101011111 0101101101 1101000110 1101010111 00101111101 1110110101 1111010111 1111011111 10101000101 1001010101 11010011110 11110100110 1101011001 1011000101 1101011101 1111010101 1101000101 0111010111 0101011111 1101010101 10110100001 1101111101 11001101110 01010011010 0111000101 1101011001 1110110111 1111111100 0111110001 1101010101 01010010001 1101110101 0101111100 0101010001 1011110101 1101000101 11110100111 0101011111 0101010111 1001010111 1111111111 1101010011 01001110101 1011011101 1001010101 1101110001 1101011101 01011110101 0101111111 01001110001 0011000101 0111010111 01010101100 01011000110 11110101001 10011001101 1101010001 11010101001 1111010101 01110000111 110110101001 1111100101 0101011101 0101010101 1011110101 10010011101 1101010101 01110101001 1111110011 1000010101 110101100101 0101001101 1101110011 1101000101 111000111 1011110101 11101100100 1001010101 1111010101 1111110001 1100010101 1111110001 0101010101 1101011101 1101110101 0101010001 1101010101 11010100101 11010101001 1101010110 1001000101 101101110 100101010010 10110011010 1101010101 1011001101 01010101010 01110101010 1111010101 1101010101 0101010001 10110101011 1111010101 01010100001 1111010101 0101010101 01100101010 11010101010 11010010101 11110101001 01010101001 01001010101 1101110101 01010000101 0111010101 1101000101 1101010101 1101110101 0111111001 01110010101 1001110101 10110000101 1101110111 0101010100 110010101001 1111010110 1011001101 1111110101 1101011101 1101010101 1101111111 1011010011 1101010111 1111010101 1101110101 1111010101 1101010111 0111110101 1111010101 0101011101 1111010101 0101010111 1101001001011 11100000101 1111000101 11010111101 111011001001 1101110101 01001010001 1111110101 11001100101 1101010111 1101010101 1100110111 1111001101 1111011111 01111100101 1101110001 0111010001 1011001101 0101111101 0101010101 1111011110 1111111111 1101010101 1101000101 1111110101 0100010101 0101011101 0101011101 0101001001 1101010111 1101111110 1111111111 1111010101 1001011111 0101010101 11010101010 11011101010 01011111011 1111111101 1001101101 11100110101 11011010101 1111000101 1111010101 1001011001 0111010001 0101010101 1101010001 1111110111 011011101101 11010101001 0101010101 1001110101 1100010001 1111111101 0101110101 11110101 1101110001 1101010011 1111100100 1111000101 100111000001 11110100101 0101010101 1111000101 1001110001 1111010101 1101010101 01010101001 0101011101 1101010101 1101010001 1001000101 1101010101 1011111101 1101000101 1101110001 1001011110 1110010101 100111001 11010101001 11011100101 1111110111 0101110001 11001010101 1101000101 110110101 11010000100 1001110101 0101011101 11010100101 1101010111 10011100101 11111100101 1011100101 110101011 1011111101 10010001100 1111010101 01001000101 0111010101 0111110101 1101110111 10111110111 1111010111 10111100001 11001010001 01001010101 1101001101 1011010101 1101010101 0101010101 1100111101 1111010001 11100101010 1101001110010 0101010101 01011101111 1101011101 1110010101 01111101001 1010111101 0101001111 11010100010 1101111101 0111011101 1101010101 110101011 01001110101 0101010101 01001010101 11110101001 1101101101 1011010111 1101110101 11001111111 1011110111 1111011101 1111110101 1111110101 1100110111 1111010101 1101011101 1101010111 1011011101 1101011101 11010101100 1101010001 11110111001 11011100101 1101010001 1101110101 1101010101 1100110001 1001001001 11111010101 111010101 1001010101 10011101110 1011011111 100101101 1001011101 1101010101 1111110111 1011010101 11111100101 1111110101 01001010101 1101010101 0111110101 11010100101 1011010101 11010001001 1001011101
- Amount of stanzas: 35
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 544
- Average number of words per stanza: 96
- Amount of lines: 428
- 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; their, in, from, and, of, that, his, to, with, all, no, or, they are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, one, with, and, a, he are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word ' at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of The Dunciad: Book Ii.;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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