This is an analysis of the poem Clavering that begins with:
I say no more for Clavering
Than I should say of him who fails ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XaXa babX Xcdc cXeX fcgc ddhd cXcb ghXh gbXX XiXi Xebe aifX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Metre: 11111100 11110111 01010101 11010101 11111111 01010111 11110001 11101000 11011111 01111101 11001100 11101101 11011111 100011000 01010001 110001000 11011111 01010001 11000101 11011101 11010111 11001001 11011101 11010001 11011111 11110100 01011110 11001111 11011101 11111101 010010100 11010100 11001111 11011111 01010111 11110101 11010111 01111101 11001111 10111111 11011100 01010101 11011100 11111110 11010101 11010101 11011101 11111100
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 131
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 48
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, good, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word too is repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Clavering;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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