This is an analysis of the poem Epilogue To Tancred And Sigismunda that begins with:
Cramm'd to the throat with wholesome moral stuff,
Alas! poor audience! you have had enough. ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccdd e eeffbbeegghhXXffddeecciijjhh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,1,28,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1001010101 01110011101 11010100001 0101011101 1101011101 1011011101 1111111111 1101010101 011101010001010110110100010000101010100101101001 1011010111 01010010101 1111010101 0111100111 1001010111 0111110101 1001011001 1101010101 1101011101 1111010101 0111010101 10010011101 0111110101 0101010111 10111010101 1101010101 11111111001 0101011111 11110110101 11110010101 1101011101 0101010101 1001010111 0101000101 1111111101 1001010101 1101010111 1101010101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 597
- Average number of words per stanza: 105
- Amount of lines: 37
- Average number of symbols per line: 48 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word where is repeated.
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