This is an analysis of the poem The Clyster that begins with:
IF truth give pleasure, surely we should try;
To found our tales on what we can rely;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccdd eebbeebbff gghhiibbdd ffggeeddjj bbeeeeff bbbb hhddbb bbkkccee bbffkkbbkkbbbb bbiieeddffccffaa hhaaffbb llffggjj
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,10,10,10,8,4,6,8,14,16,8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 0111010111 0111111101 10100010011 1111010001 1101010001 0101110111 1101010101 1111010101 0101110101 1101011001 0111010101 1101010101 0111110101 0111110101 11110111010 11010111010 0111111111 1111010101 0100110101 1101110101 1101010101 0101011101 1111111111 1101010111 0101010101 1101110101 01010110001 0111010101 0101010101 0101110111 1101010101 0101010111 0101110001 1101110101 1101011101 1100110101 1100110101 1100010001 0101000101 0101111111 010101001 1001001001 1101010001 0011111101 0101010101 1100010111 1101010101 1101011101 11010101010 01010111010 1111011001 1111010101 1100010101 1101010001 1101110101 0101010001 0101111101 0010110111 1000110101 1110111101 0101011111 0100110011 0101110101 1111000001 1111011001 1000111101 0101110001 1111110111 0111110101 0101111101 1101110101 1111100101 1101110101 1101100101 100101101 0101010001 1001110001 1101100101 1101110001 1101010011 1100110101 1101010101 1100010101 1101010101 0111001101 111000010101 0101110010 1101010101 0111110101 0101010101 0100111111 0111110101 1101111001 1101010101 1001010101 1101010101 0101010101 1101011101 1101010001 0100110111 1111010101 1011010101 1100011101 1100110011 1111010111 0111010101 0101111101 1101110101 0101110101 1111011011
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 385
- Average number of words per stanza: 68
- Amount of lines: 111
- Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; he is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, a are repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of The Clyster;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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