This is an analysis of the poem An Idler that begins with:
Who told Creed Haymond he was witty?-who
Had nothing better in this world to do?... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccdd eeeeeddeeccffccccggaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,21,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1111011101 1101000101 1111010001 1001010101 0111010101 1011110001 1001010101 0101010101 0101010001 1101011101 0101110111 0101110101 0101110001 10110010101 0101010101 0101011101 01000100111 1101010101 1101001101 0111011101 1101110010 11110001010 01111100010 1011010001 0001010101 1101010101 0101010001 1111011111 0101000101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 589
- Average number of words per stanza: 108
- Amount of lines: 29
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, of, no are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word no is repeated.
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- history of its creation;
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