This is an analysis of the poem Third Charm from Masque of Queens that begins with:
The owl is abroad, the bat, and the toad,
And so is the cat-a-mountain,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcbXdad acXabbccee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,10,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0100101101 11001010 0110111001 101111010 0111110101 01001010 0100110111 11010010 010111101 010101101 110110101 1110101101 10111110 11011010 100100111 01001101001 100111001 0010110111
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 373
- Average number of words per stanza: 72
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- 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; and, in are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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