This is an analysis of the poem A Miller, His Son, And Their Ass that begins with:
THO' to Antiquity the Praise we yield
Of pleasing Arts; and Fable's earli'st Field ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbcc ddeefbbgghhddbbbbiiii iiaa aaffjjkkllmmiXffllddcciiddllmmXaddddllbbaaaalliibbggddiXaa llaaaann fXoo
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,21,4,58,8,4,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1001000111 0101110101 1001011111 1101111101 1001010101 1011001001 01001111101 1010010001 0101011010 11010001010 1011000101 1101111101 1111001101 1101010101 1111011101 1101010101 1111110111 01011110011 1111110101 1101101101 10010101001 1001110101 0101000111 1101110001 1101110111 1111011101 1110010111 1101011001 11101010111 1001011111 0111011101 0101010101 0101101011 0111011101 1101010001 1110011101 1101111111 0101010101 1101110101 1111010101 1111010101 10011000100 0101010101 0100110101 1111010110 110100101111 0101110001 1101110111 0101110101 1111101111 0101010001 1001111111 1111001101 1101011100 0101010011 1001001001 0101110101 1101010001 1001100101 1111110101 0101010111 1001010101 1101011101 010101001001 11011100001 1101110101 0101001111 1011111101 1101111101 1101110101 0111011101 1111010101 0111111101 11110110001 1101110111 1111110111 0101010101 1101110101 1101010101 10011001101 1111110101 0111110101 1111001101 1101010111 1101011111 1110010111 1001110111 1001001001 1111111101 0101010101 0101011111 1111110001 1111110001 0101101111 1101110111 1111011101 0101100101 1111010101 0101010101 1101111101 1101011101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 762
- Average number of words per stanza: 140
- Amount of lines: 104
- 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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, my, i, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, the are repeated.
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