This is an analysis of the poem The Glove - A Tale that begins with:
Before his lion-court,
Impatient for the sport,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabccb ccccccdeXe FdfXaagghh FbfXiijj kkee alalX cmcm bbkdkdggXk
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,10,10,8,4,5,4,10,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 010101 010101 110111 01001101 101001001 101001001 110010110 011010010 10001001 100101 1101 11011 1111 1101 11011 11101 01101 011101 1100101 01011 101011101101 101001001101 01001101011 11001111001 11001 111111 01101 111101 110101 11011 101011101101 11001101001 101001011111 011101101001 001001101 01111101 0001111 01011001 00111000101 1111001 101001111011 011111111001 111110111100 10100100101 1000111010 1010101101 1101001010 1011100101 0101100101 11100100101 0100101101 110010101 010010101 11001011001 1110111001 100110111000 1110101101
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 259
- Average number of words per stanza: 48
- Amount of lines: 57
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (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; in, he, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
The author used the same words again, and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase again connects the lines.
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- summary of The Glove - A Tale;
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- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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