This is an analysis of the poem The Rape Of The Lock: Canto 4 that begins with:
But anxious cares the pensive nymph oppress'd,
And secret passions labour'd in her breast.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddee ffaagg hhiieejj ccjjiX ggjjffii iiiiiiii ggaacccc jjggaaiiddiicchhiijjiigX eXiiiiiidd jjaaeXjjeejjjjeeggddaajjiiiiffkX iiggcckkcc ggeeffeXjj ffiijj ddggjjjjdXddhhkkjjaaiillggiiiX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,6,8,6,8,8,8,24,10,32,10,10,6,30,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1101010101 11010100001 1101010101 1101011101 1101010111 1101010101 1101110001 11001010101 10111010101 11110111001 1111010101 11001000101 1001010101 1101001101 1001010101 0101010101 1101010101 1001010101 1101010101 0101010111 1001110101 1101010101 1111010101 1101110101 1101010101 1101010101 1111011101 0101011101 0101110111 0101010010 1101000101 1001010001 10001110101 1001110001 1011100101 1001110111 0111110011 1111110101 01010100101 1101010101 1011010101 1111000101 1101111101 11010111010 1101011001 1101110001 10001110111 01010100111 1101011111 1101001101 0101110111 1101110111 1101110101 1111010111 1101100101 0101010001 11010110101 1101010001 1001010111 11111010101 110010111001 1111010101 1101110001 1101000101 0110111101 1101010101 11010111101 1101010101 1101010101 1101010101 01001011101 1101011101 1101011111 11000011001 11001011101 1101010111 1111010001 11011101010 0100010101 1001111101 0101010111 1111010101 1101010111 1111010101 0101110101 1101011101 0101010101 1011110101 1010010111 0101010101 11011010111 1101010101 0101011101 11100101010 101010110111 110101001001 10010111101 0101110001 1011010101 10010101001 1001011101 1101010101 1101000111 1011010101 10011110001 1101011101 1001011101 0101010111 0101100101 1111000101 1111110101 1101000111 1101110001 0111000101 11010101001 1101011101 1011011101 1111000101 1011110101 11011101010 1111001101 1101010101 1101011101 1011000101 0101110101 1101010101 111110111010 111011111010 111101111 10010111101 101110010101 10111110101 1101010111 1101110101 1101010101 1001011101 1111010101 01110111010 1111001101 0101010001 1101011011 1101010101 1101010101 0111001101 1011010101 1001111111 10101000101 1111110101 1011110110 0101111101 1111010101 1101010101 11110100001 0111110101 10110010101 1111110110 1111010101 1101010111 1111010101 1111111111 1001010101 10110010111 0101010101 1111111101 0111100101 0101010111 1011001101 1111111101 1011010101 1111000101 0101111101 1001010101 10001010101 1111110101 1111001001 110111011100
- Amount of stanzas: 14
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 589
- Average number of words per stanza: 98
- Amount of lines: 176
- 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; not, her, in, with, and, or, for, this, your, my, of are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words not, or, for, already, which, where are repeated.
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