This is an analysis of the poem The Cobbler that begins with:
WE'RE told, that once a cobbler, BLASE by name;
A wife had got, whose charms so high in fame;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbXcddee ffggff bbffhhddiijjddddgg ff dXkk ccddll
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 10,6,18,2,4,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1111010111 0111111101 1101011111 0101000101 0110111100 0111010101 1101010101 1101110101 0111110011 11010001001 0111010101 0111011001 0111010101 0101111111 01111110010 01011101010 1111001101 1101110101 1101110111 1100111101 1101011101 1101110101 1101011111 0101010101 110100111 1111010110 1111011100 1111110101 1101010101 1111111101 0101110111 1100111101 1111001101 1101010101 01010101010 01011101010 0111010111 11001111110 1111110111 1001011111 1101010111 1101111101 1111010101 1101000101 01110111101 1101110101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 337
- Average number of words per stanza: 62
- Amount of lines: 46
- 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; all is 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 Cobbler;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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