This is an analysis of the poem Prosopopoia: Or Mother Hubbard's Tale that begins with:
By that he ended had his ghostly sermon,
The fox was well induc'd to be a parson,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeeffaaddfgXchhiifffghhXXXhccffjjfXbbggkkeeaakkffXceeaaXkXX ffaaXbcckkccffddcccckXccXXaakk
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 66,30,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 11110101010 01110100010 1001101001 1001001101 10010010110101 1011011011 1101101101 100101010 1111110101 100111101 1011001001 11011001001 110101010 011100010 1111010101 1111011001 111111100 1111010100 1111111100 1111110101 110100111001 11110101001 1011110111 1011100101 110110011 1111010101 1111110101 0101010100 0101000101 0111000111 1111110100 0111110101 1101010100 1011001011 1001110101 1001010111 1101010101 01001110000 0001001101 010001100 1101001001 1101010100 1111110101 1011010111 01111001010 111110100010 1101001101 1001100101 0101010001 1001010101 0101110101 1101110111 1101100011 1101110101 1101010101 110111010 00011110100 1001110001 1111111101 1101010001 11010011110 101010001010 1111111110 0101011111 10011101110 110101010100 101111100011 1011010101 1111111100 1111110001 111001111010 0111011101 1101110101 11111111101 1011010101 11111100101 1101001001 1101010101 11101010100 1111011101 111111111 01010111100 0111001101 10010100001 1101110001 1001110001 1100110101 11010010000 1101010011 110111001 01010101010 11111101010 10111101010 01110111010 011101011 1011110111
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 2159
- Average number of words per stanza: 378
- Amount of lines: 96
- 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.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, to are repeated.
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- summary of Prosopopoia: Or Mother Hubbard's Tale;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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