This is an analysis of the poem Upon A Spider Catching A Fly that begins with:
Thou sorrow, venom Elfe:
Is this thy play,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXaa bXbcc dXebe XdXdd aXfgg dhdXh iiiii iXijj gdgddXeadfa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,11,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110101 0011 01011010 0101 11 110101 1101 11111011 1111 01 111001 1110 10110101 1101 01 110111 1111 10010101 1101 11 010101 1101 11011100 1101 11 010111 1011 11011111 1001 11 011101 1101 01010111 1101 11 010101 111100 01100111 1101 11 110101 0101 11010101 1101 11 110011 1111 01011101 1100 11
- Amount of stanzas: 10
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 107
- Average number of words per stanza: 20
- Amount of lines: 50
- Average number of symbols per line: 21 (very short strings)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words to, and are repeated.
The author used the same word this at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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