The Rape Of The Lock: Canto 3 by Alexander Pope: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem The Rape Of The Lock: Canto 3 that begins with:

Close by those meads, for ever crown'd with flow'rs,
Where Thames with pride surveys his rising tow'rs,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXaaXabbccccddeecc bbddffffaaddggXhff ggXXggdd hi XeggggggeeggjjXXgg ggeeggggkk ffggddeebbll ffmmlXccddffbb ccbb ggeeggcXggggeeddcchh llffcceegghhhhccggccgg gggXddXi eeccbb XdhhggeennccbbgglX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 18,18,8,2,18,10,12,14,4,20,22,8,6,18,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 1111110101 1101010101 1101000101 1001010101 11010101100 0101010111 1111011101 1011011011 1001010101 0101010001 0100110101011 1101110101 1101000101 11010101001 0101010111 1101010101 1101011101 0101010111 1101000101 0101010101 0101010101 1101110111 01001010101 1011000101 0101110101 1001011001 111000111 1101011101 1011010101 1101000101 11110111001 0111110101 11001010100 1101000111 1111001101 1111010101 0111010001 0101010101 1111110101 10101001101 1101010101 1111110011 1101010101 1101010101 0101010101 101010111110 11010101000 0111000101 100110001 1111011101 1101100101 1101000101 1101010111 1111110101 0011010100 0101000101 1111010101 0101010101 0101110101 1011000101 11011111100 1111000101 1101110101 1101010101 1111000101 1001010101 0111010101 101000100101 0111010101 1001011101 1101010101 0101010101 1101110101 1011110101 0101010101 10101111101 1010010101 0101110101 1101010101 01010010101 1101010101 0101110101 0101010101 010010101001 0101010001 01111110001 0101010101 1111010101 1001010101 010100110101 11110110101 1001010110 11110110001 1111010101 1101110101 1001110101 10101001101 1111010101 0101010101 0101110101 1101010101 1101011101 1011010101 11110001001 1101011101 0101010111 1101000111 01010100101 0101010101 1101010101 1111011111 1101010110 1101010101 1111010101 11001110101 10011000101 1011010101 1111100111 1101000101 11000100101 1111011111 1011110101 1001110101 1101110101 1101010110 1111110001 1101010101 0111000101 1100010111 0101111101 1101010101 0101010101 0101100111 11001011101 10010101001 0101111101 1111010001 1111110111 10110101001 0110000101 11010000101 11101010001 1011010101 1101010101 0101110101 0101100101 0111010101 11001110001 1101010101 01011101000 1101110101 1101010101 01010101100 00111101110 1101010001 11010111001 11010100111 1101111111 1111010101 0101110101 1010101110100 01011100101 1101110101 1001110101 1111000101 1011010101 1101011101 1101101101 1111110001 1111011111 1111010101 1100110101 1101100101 110110100101 1101010101 1101010001 1101111111 010010100010
  • Amount of stanzas: 14
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 599
  • Average number of words per stanza: 99
  • Amount of lines: 184
  • Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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; to, his, of, and, her, he, when, in, or are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, some are repeated.

    The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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