This is an analysis of the poem The Gascon Punished that begins with:
A GASCON (being heard one day to swear,
That he'd possess'd a certain lovely fair)...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccbb bbddbb bbeeff ggcchhhh iijj aabbkkaa ggiiddlliiXaaajXjjmm bb iinnoobb bbiicc hhbb bbaaaa bbiiccbbnnccXiddcc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,6,6,8,4,8,20,2,8,6,4,6,18,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 0101011101 1101010101 1101011101 11011100011 1111010101 1101110101 1001010001 1101111101 0101010101 11001011101 1111011101 1101010101 1111000111 1111110111 1101110011 1100010101 0111010011 1100010101 1111001101 0101111101 1101010111 0110110111 0100010111 11010010111 1100110101 1101011001 011110101 01110111101 11011100001 0101010111 0101011101 1101110101 0101010111 1101011101 1111110111 0101010101 1101111101 1101110001 1100011101 1111010101 11110001001 0100010001 0101110101 0101110001 1101010001 1101010101 1101011101 1101010101 1001000110 01011011111 01010011010 1101010001 1101110101 1101001101 1101001101 1100010110 10101100111 0101011111 1100011101 1101000111 0111010101 1001010101 0101110101 0101010011 0101010001 1101011111 1101111101 1101110101 1101110101 1111010001 1001011011 1101010111 1100010001 111001001 1101010011 0101000111 1101001101 1101111111 1101110101 1100011111 0101001101 1100011101 1001011101 1111010101 1111010011 0101110101 1101010111 0111010101 0101110101 1110010101 1101110011 01010111001 0101110101 1101010101 110111001 1101010101 1101010101 0101010001 0101010110 1100110101 0101110101 1101010101 1101010001 1001010001
- Amount of stanzas: 13
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 347
- Average number of words per stanza: 61
- Amount of lines: 104
- 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; and, gascon, he, his are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is repeated.
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