This is an analysis of the poem The Rape Of The Lock: Canto 2 that begins with:
Not with more glories, in th' etherial plain,
The sun first rises o'er the purpled main,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbaaccbbbbddeeffeeddXbggcceeggbbeehhbbiibbXc bbggggXhccXXeehhjjbbbbhhaa cceegggghhjjaaeeaa ccffXXbbjX cchhkkeeffccaaddhhffeellbbggaaXXffjXeecchh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 46,26,18,10,42,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 10110011001 01110100101 11001010001 1101000101 1111110101 1101111001 10110100111 1111110001 0101010101 11011110011 1001011101 1101110101 1101010101 1101111101 1101110101 1101011101 0001111101 1101110101 0100010011 1011110101 01011101001 0101001101 1011000110 1101110101 0101010101 1101010101 11010100101 1101100101 110010011010 1111100101 01011100001 1101011101 1101010101 1101110101 101111101 0101110101 1101011101 0111010101 1111010101 1101000101 01010111010 11110101010 1101110101 1001110101 0111110101 0101010101 1101010101 01110010101 1101010101 1101010101 1101010101 0101110111 1101010110 10101110101 1101010001 0101010101 11001100101 1111000101 1001111101 1101110101 0101111101 1101010101 1001110101 1101000101 1001010001 11100101001 1101110101 10111001111 0101010101 010010111001 0101010001 1101011110 1111001111 11010111001 11011100101 11010011001 10010101001 1111000101 1101010111 1101010101 1101010111 0101110101 1101010101 1111000101 1111010101 11001010101 10111010101 1111111101 0101010101 1101010101 101001000101 10110111001 0101001101 11101010001 0111000101 01011101101 0101011101 0111010111 1101010101 0101110100 10111010101 11001010101 11001011111 1111011101 1001110101 1111010101 1101010101 0101110101 1101110101 1101111111 1111001101 0101010001 010110101 1100010101 1110010101 10001100101 10101010101 11101010101 1111111101 1101110101 1011010101 110101001 10001010001 0101110111 11110110001 0101010101 1101010101 1111000101 1110010101 1111010101 1101001001 10110101001 1101010111 0101000101 010101011 11010111100 1101000101 1101010101 1101010001 1101010001 01010100111 10110010101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1350
- Average number of words per stanza: 223
- Amount of lines: 143
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (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; her, as, in, he, to, of, and, from, their, or are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, or, to, some are repeated.
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