This is an analysis of the poem On The Hoop that begins with:
The hoop, the darling justly of the fair,
Of every generous swain deserves the care.... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbXXccccaaddeebcXc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 20,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 0101010001 010010010101 0010001001 1101010001 0111011111 1101011101 1101010101 0101011101 11110101 1011110101 1101110111 11110100101 1101011101 1111110001 1101110110 0101010101 1101111001 1010000101 1101011001 1011100101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 842
- Average number of words per stanza: 151
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- 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; so is repeated.
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