This is an analysis of the poem The Alchemist: Prologue that begins with:
Fortune, that favours fools, these two short hours,
We wish away, both for your sakes and ours,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeeccddffgghhccXc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 24,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 10110111110 1101111111 10100101001 00101000111 1101001111 1101010111 1111010111 1101010101 1101110101 1111001101 1101010101 0101011101 10001110101 0101110111 1101010011 1011011101 11011101101 10011100001 1111111101 0101010111 1001011011 11111011101 11110010111 110010111111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1077
- Average number of words per stanza: 198
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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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- summary of The Alchemist: Prologue;
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- idea of the verse;
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