This is an analysis of the poem A Retort that begins with:
As vicious women think all men are knaves,
And shrew-bound gentlemen discourse of slaves;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeeXXffggff
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 18,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1101011111 1111001001 11010101010 11010101110 1101001111 0111010111 1001011001 1111010001 10010001101 1101010101 1101010101 1101110001 1101110001 0101011101 110110101 1111010101 1101011101 0110010111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 793
- Average number of words per stanza: 136
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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.
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