This is an analysis of the poem Friar Philip's Geese that begins with:
IF these gay tales give pleasure to the FAIR,
The honour's great conferred, I'm well aware;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccXdeebbeeeeffggaadd gghhaaeeiibbhhgghh jekkll bbddiiXgjjhh bbaacc llXabb ggddggmmkk jjll bbggeehhXXhhjj ggccaagggg bbjjllbbaaggiigggggg nnbbhh eegggghhjjggeehh hhddXiibbbbhh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 24,18,6,12,6,6,10,4,14,10,20,6,16,13,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 0111110001 0101010101 1101011101 0101011101 1011111101 1111010101 0101110110 1111110101 01011100101 1001110101 1101011101 0101110101 1101110111 1101110101 1101010001 1101010110 1111011111 1111010101 1111001101 1101011011 1111111111 0101111101 1111010101 1111110101 0101010111 101011010011 1111110101 10011111101 1101110101 0101010101 1101110111 1001110111 1100010101 1111010111 010101101 11010100101 0110110011 1111110101 1101010101 0111110111 1101010111 1111011111 0111010101 1001001101 1101110101 0111111101 1110010001 1101010101 1101111101 0101010101 0101010101 11001010101 1101010011 1101011101 1101111110 0101010101 01001011101 1101011111 1101000111 1101010111 01010000110 1101010011 11010010101 01010111001 0101010011 0111110001 0101010101 0101010001 01010101010 0101110101 1101010001 0101011101 1100110101 0101110101 1111010101 10001110011 001110110101 1101010101 0101010101 1111010101 0101010111 1101110101 0101010111 1001010101 0101010101 1101010101 1101011101 0101010111 1001010101 10001011101 0101011101 1101010001 1001010111 1101010111 1111110011 0101011101 1111011101 1101111101 1111010001 01111010111 0011011101 0101010101 1101011101 1101010101 01010100101 0101011101 1111110101 10010100001 1101110101 0111110101 1111010111 0100010101 0011010101 0101010001 11110011111 1111011101 1101010101 1101110011 11010110101 0111011101 1101010101 0101111101 1111010101 1111101101 1111010101 1101010101 1101010101 1111110101 1111011111 1111010101 1101110101 1101010101 0111010101 1101110101 0111010101 1111110101 0101001101 11010101010 0101001101 1101010101 1111010101 1101010101 1111110101 1101110101 1101011101 0101011101 01011101010 11010101010 0101010101 0101010101 1011110001 1111011101 1101110001 0101010001 0101001101 1101011101 11010110101 1111111101 0111000101 1101111111 0101110101 1100011111 1100110111 1111010101
- Amount of stanzas: 15
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 475
- Average number of words per stanza: 84
- Amount of lines: 164
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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; his, and, of, he, it are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
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- summary of Friar Philip's Geese;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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