This is an analysis of the poem Poetry that begins with:
THE POETRY OF CHAUCER
Grey with all honours of age! but fresh-featured and ruddy ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a bXbc a dded X fXgg f fXXe X Xegh X icgX b ifeX h XXeX d Xbcfh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0100010 10110011110110 11101011111100 100100111101100 111101101011101 0100010 11010010010110 1111011001001 101100111101100 1011111001011011 0100011 10111011011010 1011101011001 10110111011010 1011111011111101 0100010 10111010111010 010001001001011 010010010011010 01001001011001011 0100010 11110110101100 1001101101001 100110100110101 1011001001001001 0100010 011010111010010 11001001001001 011110010010011 01001111001001001 0100010 11011110010010 1011001001001 10011010010010 1011011101001111 0100010 010010110010010 11011101010001 010110010010010 11011011011001101 010001 01001001101010 110011110001001 100010010010010 111010010110010001
- Amount of stanzas: 18
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 133
- Average number of words per stanza: 22
- Amount of lines: 57
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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; and, of, in, with are repeated.
The author used the same word the 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 renewed connects the lines.
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- summary of Poetry;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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