This is an analysis of the poem A Confidant Without Knowing It; Or The Stratagem that begins with:
NO master sage, nor orator I know,
Who can success, like gentle Cupid show;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbbbccdd eeffggbb hhdd iiddjXkk llddccllddaabbkkkk ddggddlllXmmddnnkk dddd ddooddkkbXggkkbboo ddddcc ggddddhhllmmkkaaXc ggkkXd oohhnndd aaffddddkkoobbjcllnn aaXhkklX bbggmmbXllccdd aanneekkddddccddppkk aannlldd kkkkqqgg ddddddXdkkaaddddXoonnllkk
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,8,4,8,18,18,4,18,6,18,6,8,20,8,14,20,8,8,25,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1101110011 1101110101 0111001101 0101111101 10010001101 1001010101 1101000101 1101010101 10001110101 1100010101 1101110001 1101110001 1101011101 0101110101 0101110101 1100010011 0101010011 1101011111 1101010101 0101110101 0101001111 1101111101 0101011001 0111010101 1101011111 1111010101 1111110010 1111011101 1100110101 1101110001 110101111 0101010101 1101110101 10101110101 1111010101 1101010101 1101010101 0101010111 0101010101 0101010001 0101010101 1101010001 0101000101 1001010101 1101011101 1101110101 1011010101 1101110101 010101011 1100110101 1101011101 1101110101 10011100010 01010110010 1101010001 1101110101 1100010001 01011011110 11010010001 0101011101 1111011101 1001011101 1101010001 1111011101 1001010101 0101111111 011100111 0101110101 1111010111 01110101011 1101010001 1101111101 1101001001 1101010100 01001010001 1111010101 1101110111 1101011101 1001011101 1101010101 0111111011 1101110101 1111010101 0101011101 11011101111 110111101 1110011111 1111010101 1101000101 1101010101 0111101010 11011101010 1111111101 0101011001 0101110101 0101010101 1111010101 1001011111 0101110101 1101011101 1101010101 1101110101 1011110101 0111111111 1100110101 1111001011 11110101011 1100010001 01000101101 110011111 01110101010 1101011101 1111010101 0101001101 1111111111 0111110101 11010100100 1101111011 1101010101 111110101 1100011001 1101110011 0111011101 1111110101 1100110001 1101011101 1101111101 0101111101 0101111101 1101011001 1101110001 1111110101 0101010101 0111011101 1101010101 1111011111 0100110100 1011010101 111010111 1101110101 11010111010 1100010001 1101001001 1111111111 1111110101 010101101001 0010111101 1101000111 0101110110 110110011 0100011101 1101011101 1101011001 1101110101 1111011101 11010100101 0101010101 011110001 1111110011 0101110101 0101110111 1101110110 0101010101 1111010101 1101011101 1101110101 1110010001 1100110111 1101010101 1111010101 0111111111 0111110101 1010111111 0110011101 0101111101 1101111101 1100010001 1111011101 1101010001 11010101101 1011011101 1111110001 0101011101 0111010101 0111011101 1101010101 1111000111 0111001101 1101111101 0101100101 1101010101 0101010101 0011111101 11110100101 1111110101 1101000111 0111010111 1111111101 1100011101 0100010101 1001110111 01100110101 1100010101 1101111001 01110011101 111010001 1001011101 0101011001 0111011111 0101010101 01010111100 0111010111 1110010011 1100110110 1101010101 1101111101 0110110101 0101010011 11010101010 11110111010 110111111 0100100101 1101011101 1100110101 01011001001 11010101001 1101010011 10100010101
- Amount of stanzas: 20
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 480
- Average number of words per stanza: 87
- Amount of lines: 228
- 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; she, her, to, you, he, his, i, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words a, to, at are repeated.
The author used the same word i at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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