This is an analysis of the poem The Mandrake that begins with:
FLORENTINE we now design to show;--
A greater blockhead ne'er appeared below;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddbbeeaaffggbbhh gXffiiiibbjjkk bbffbbffbb eellbb hhmmddccnnff bbffffffmmcceebbffoobX hhddggffbbbb bbaabb ffmmccggpX igiiccff qqppiiqqbbbbccbbffggffddcc ccffggii bbeeccbbggbbggeecceebbbbbbffgg bbaaeeXgppiiffccXm ffgg bbff mmccccffbb hhffrreeffii hhf
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 22,14,10,6,12,22,12,6,10,8,26,8,30,18,4,4,10,12,6,8,6,2,14,6,18,8,35,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 101110101 0101110101 0101010111 0101110111 11010000101 1001110111 01010010101 1101000101 1101010101 1101111101 0101001101 1101010101 1101010111 11010100001 1101010111 1101010001 01011111011 1101010101 1101110001 1111110001 1101010111 1101110111 0101010101 1111011100 1111001101 0101010001 1011010101 1111011111 0100111110 0101111111 1101011111 1101111101 0111110101 1101010101 1111010011 1101110011 0101110011 11001010101 1111010001 1100010101 0111110111 0100010111 0101011101 1110001101 1101010101 1111010111 1110001101 11100010101 0111110101 0101010001 1100010101 1111010101 1101111101 1101011101 1101110011 1101110001 0101110101 1101010001 010101111 1101010111 1101010001 0101110101 1101110101 1101001101 1110100001 0101111101 1101110110 0101010001 1111010111 11010101001 0100010111 1111010101 1101100111 0101110101 0110110101 1101011101 1101010001 1101001101 1101110101 0100110001 1001010101 0111010101 1111110101 11100101001 10100111001 10010101010 1101110101 1101111101 010010010111 01110101001 1111001101 1101010111 1101110101 1100111101 1101010011 1111011001 1100010011 11000111001 1100010101 0101010101 1101000101 11011100001 1101111011 0101110101 1111011110 1101010111 1011010101 1101010101 0101010101 1101110101 1001010101 11000100101 1101010101 1100110111 1101110001 1100010101 0101010111 1101110101 0111110001 1101010001 1111011101 0101010101 1111010101 0111110001 11010100101 1101111101 1011010001 0101110101 1101110111 1101111101 1101011101 1101111101 1101010101 1101010101 1111110001 1111001101 0101010001 1101011101 1111110001 0111010101 1111010101 0101100111 0111000101 0101110101 0110010111 0101111101 0101000101 1101110111 1101010101 0100110111 0101011111 1101010101 0101110001 01010011101 0101011101 1100010101 1000010001 1101010001 1111011101 1001010001 1111010101 1101011101 1101010001 0101010001 01100011111 1101000101 0111110111 1101010101 1101010101 1011001101 0101010101 1111011101 1111011011 1100010101 0101010111 01010101101 1101001101 1100110001 1111011101 1001010101 1111000101 0101000101 1111010101 0101011101 11111101011 0111010101 0101010101 1111010101 1111011101 1101110101 0111010101 1111011001 0101011110 1111010101 1100110001 1101010101 0100110101 1101010101 1111010101 1011010101 11001011001 1111110001 1111111111 1100110101 0101011101 0101001111 1101010110 1101110011 0101110101 1011010101 1111011101 1101110011 0101110101 1111010101 01100010101 0111000101 0101010111 1001100100 1100010101 1111010101 01010011101 1101000101 0101010111 0101010001 0111010101 1111110101 0111010001 1111010101 1101110011 0101010101 1101000101 1101010101 1101010111 0101000101 0101011101 1100110001 1101010110 0101111010 1101010101 11001110001 1001011101 0110011101 1101010011 1101011011 0111011101 1101011101 1111010101 0101010101 0101110101 1101010001 0100010111 1100110101 0101010101 1111010101 0101000101 0101010101 1101010101 1101110101 1111010111 0101110101 1101011101 1000110101 0111010101 1101010101 11011000111 1110100111 1101111001 1100110111 1101010101 1101010101 1101010101 0101011101 0101110101 1100111101 1101010101 0101010101 0101110101 1101110101 1101011101 0101010101 11110010001 0111110001 1101011101 1101011101 10011011101 1101010101 1101110101 0101000101 0101010100 0101010001 11001010000 1111010101 1101110101 1101110111 1101011101 1110110001 11010111010 01001010101 0101110101 1101001101 0101010101 1100110101 0100011101 1100010101 1101110101 1101011101 1001010001 1111010001 1111010111 1100010101 1101010101 1101011101 1111110011 1101110101 1111010001 0111010001 1111110101 1101111101 1100011111 1100110101 11011101111 1111010001 0111111111 1101010101 1101110111 1100011101 0101011111 1101110101 1111010010 1101110101 0101010101 1101000101 1101110101 1111110001 0111110111 0111010001
- Amount of stanzas: 28
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 510
- Average number of words per stanza: 90
- Amount of lines: 336
- 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; he, to, their, or, and, you, her, nor, in are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words what, the, to, too 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 Mandrake;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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