This is an analysis of the poem The Cudgelled And Contented Cuckold that begins with:
SOME time ago from Rome, in smart array,
A younger brother homeward bent his way,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeefegg hhcc hhii jjggcckk cchhXf iihh ccee bbccccccbb kkhhcc iiaahhhhcc hhhhbbllddcceeXhddeebbhhccgghchhhhaammccggbbXe ccbbnnhhXiddeebbkk cciiXXddXhhcciihhccllaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,4,4,8,6,4,4,10,6,10,46,18,23,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1101010101 0101010101 1101110001 0111001101 0101110111 0101110111 01011100111 1111100101 0101010101 1101110101 110101001010 1101010001 1110010101 01010110011 1101010111 0101110101 1101001111 1100010001 0101110101 0101110001 1101010101 1111110101 0111010101 1101110111 100110001001 1101010101 1101010110 1111011101 1111110101 1101011110 1111101101 1101111101 0101011101 1001010101 1101111101 01010001110 0101010111 1101001111 1101000101 11011100101 0110010101 1111000101 0101010001 0111010111 1101110101 1111010101 1111010101 0101111101 0101000101 1101001101 1101010011 1011010001 1101010101 1101010101 1101010101 1101110111 1101011011 0001010101 0001011101 0111110001 1111111101 1100110111 1101001101 110100010001 1111110101 1101011101 0101110111 11001010101 1101011101 1101110111 0101010101 1111010001 1001010101 1101110101 1111010101 1101010101 11010111001 1101010101 11000110111 0111010111 1101000101 01001101101 1101111101 101110111 1011110010 0101011101 1101001101 0101010101 1111010101 0101110111 1011110001 0111011101 0100011101 0111010101 1101111101 010100101 1111011101 1101010001 0101010101 0101011101 10001111101 01001011111 0111010101 0101010111 1111110111 1111010101 1101010101 0011110101 1111010101 01010100101 1110101001 11011010101 1111010101 11010100101 1101011101 0101110101 1101010101 1101010111 1111110001 1111100101 1101110101 1111010001 1111111101 1100110101 1111110101 0101010111 1101010101 0101000101 0111110101 0111010001 1101011101 1101001001 1101110001 1111000101 01011011101 1101010101 1101011111 0101110111 1100110101 0101010001 1101011111 0101010111 0111010111 1111000111 1111011101 1001011101 0101010111 1100010111 11010100111 0111010001 1101111111 0111011101 1111011101 1111011101 0101010101 11001001100
- Amount of stanzas: 14
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 479
- Average number of words per stanza: 87
- Amount of lines: 156
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (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, he, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, he 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 Cudgelled And Contented Cuckold;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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