This is an analysis of the poem An Occasional Prologue, Delivered Previous To The Performance Of 'The Wheel Of Fortune' At A Private Theatre that begins with:
Since the refinement of this polish'd age
Has swept irnmortal raillery from the stage;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddbbeeffXXggffhhbbeehheeeeiijj
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 36,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1001000101 11100100001 1111010101 1101111101 1101010111 1101010101 1101011101 1101011111 1110011101 1001110001 01110010101 0101010101 1111010111 1101010101 011101001 01011000101 11111100111 1111010111 1000110101 1001110111 1111010101 1111110111 111100101 0101010011 1101110101 11001011101 11110101001 11010010111 1001010101 1001011101 1111010111 0101000111 1111010101 1101111001 1111001101 1011011101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1549
- Average number of words per stanza: 275
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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; no, to, our are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word no is repeated.
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- summary of An Occasional Prologue, Delivered Previous To The Performance Of 'The Wheel Of Fortune' At A Private Theatre;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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