This is an analysis of the poem A Comedy that begins with:
MADAM, you bade me act a part,
A comedy of your devising-- ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd efef adad cgcg hhhh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 10111101 010001010 01100111 000111010 01111101 111111011 11110101 010111011 11111111 111111010 11111101 011011010 01001111 010001111 11110011 110001111 01111111 010101010 11111101 111111010 11111101 011111111 11110111 011111011
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 149
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 29
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; your, you are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word your is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines you is repeated).
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- summary of A Comedy;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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