This is an analysis of the poem The Contract that begins with:
THE husband's dire mishap, and silly maid,
In ev'ry age, have proved the fable's aid;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeeff ggffbb aahhddffiihhaajjff kkccffcc llmmjjnnff cceeff nnllffaaooffhhaall llaaaaaaee jjaaaaaahh llaaffkkaaffhhffaXnnaaXaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,6,18,8,10,6,18,10,10,25,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 01010111101 0101110101 0010110001 1001001101 1101010111 1101011101 1111011111 1001011101 0101000011 0111010101 1101000101 0010011101 0101000101 1100010101 1101010101 0101110101 0101111101 01101010101 0111010101 1101011101 1111010101 1100010101 0101010101 1101001101 1100010011 0101110001 1011010101 1101100101 1001010101 1101010111 1100011101 11010110111 1101010101 0111010101 1100110101 0101010111 0101011011 0101010101 1111010101 0011010101 11110010101 01010110011 1101000101 1111110001 1100010111 111010101 0101010111 01010010101 110100101 11001010101 1011010111 0101010101 0111111101 1111100101 11001010101 1101110001 1101010101 11001100101 0101010101 1101110101 11010111101 0101010001 1101010001 1101010001 1101110001 1101110101 1101010001 0101010101 1101010101 0101010101 1001110101 0100111111 1101111101 1111000001 1011010101 1101011001 0101010101 1011010001 1101010101 1101111101 1001010101 1101110101 1111110111 1101100101 0101010101 1111000101 0111110100 0100111101 0110010101 1001010101 0100011101 0101111001 1111110101 1100010001 0101111101 1100010101 0111110001 0111010101 0100111111 1101011101 0101011101 0111011001 0111010101 1101010101 1111010101 11000111001 0101110101 0111011101 1100011111 1100010101 0101010001 1001001101 0011010101 11001100101 0100010001 1111010101 1101010101 1101011101 1001010101 1001010101 1101010111 1101000101
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 464
- Average number of words per stanza: 83
- Amount of lines: 122
- 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; he 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 Contract;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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