This is an analysis of the poem The Bucking-Tub that begins with:
IF once in love, you'll soon invention find
And not to cunning tricks and freaks be blind;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddaaee ffggeehhccaa bbggdcff aabb aaggggaabbiibbhhcc aajjdd bbaaggaaaaggkkbbXbbaaee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,12,8,4,18,6,23,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0101110101 1101011101 0101011101 1101110101 0101010101 0101000101 0101110101 1101011101 0101010101 0101101101 0100111101 0111110101 0101011101 0101010101 0101011111 1111110001 1100111101 1011010101 1100010001 1111001101 1101000101 1110110011 1110010111 1111010011 0101010101 1111110001 1111000101 1101011101 11100010101 1100010101 0101011111 1111010101 11010101001 1101110101 0101010111 0101111011 0101110101 1111010101 1111110101 1101011101 0111111101 1101110101 1101000111 0101010101 0101010101 1001010101 1111110111 1101011111 1101011001 1111111001 1101010111 1111010111 1011010111 1101111101 111010101 1111011101 1111110101 1101000101 1100001011 1101010101 1101000101 1111110101 0100011111 1101110111 1101110111 1101010101 01001110111 0101010101 0111010001 1101010101 0101010101 0101110101 1111111101 1101111011 1101011101 1101010111 01010100101 1101110001 1101110111 01011101001 1111010101 0100111101
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 448
- Average number of words per stanza: 81
- Amount of lines: 82
- 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; and, of, when 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 The Bucking-Tub;
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- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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