This is an analysis of the poem The Pun that begins with:
Hail, peerless Pun! thou last and best,
Most rare and excellent bequest... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaa bbccdd eeXeffXXXX gg hhii hhXe
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,6,10,2,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11011111 11110001 010100001 11011001 100101001 11110101 010110001 10010111 00111101 01011101 10111101 11010101 110111110 01010101 011100111 11000101 110001010 110101010 11110101 11110101 1011111010 101101011 110011101 010010101 01010001 11010101 11110101 11111111 11111111 11001101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 170
- Average number of words per stanza: 33
- Amount of lines: 30
- Average number of symbols per line: 33 (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; and is repeated.
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- summary of The Pun;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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