This is an analysis of the poem The Progress Of Wit that begins with:
DIVERTING in extreme there is a play,
Which oft resumes its fascinating sway;...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbcc ddeecc aaffgghhddeeaad dffeeii ffjjaaddjjii eeiibbkk ddccffeegg eehhaaeeeeccff eeaaffjleeXllXeeeeeeaa eeeeffffeeffgg aall mmffeeff hheeiiXaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,6,15,7,12,8,10,14,22,14,4,8,9,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 0100011001 11101010101 01011101110 11111111010 0101010101 0100111101 0111010001 1001000101 110111101010 11011101010 1101000101 0100111101 00111110001 1101000111 1101010001 1111010111 1101010001 1101010101 0101010111 1001010111 1111100101 10001011101 1101110101 0111111101 0101010101 0101011001 1101111101 0111010111 0101010101 1101110101 0101010101 1111010101 0101000101 1111010001 0101100101 0101011101 11001110101 1100110001 0101111101 1101000111 1111110101 0111010001 0100110001 0101010101 1101010001 1101010001 1101111101 1001010101 0101111101 1101011111 11010111010 100110111010 1111010101 1001010101 1101010101 1101011001 1101011101 1100110001 0111010101 0111110111 1011010111 1111110101 1111010110 0101010111 11010101010 1101000101 0101010101 0111101101 1101110001 1101110101 0101011101 1111110101 0001111101 1100110101 1101010101 1111010101 1001000101 1101010111 0101010101 11001110101 1101111101 0101101101 1101111101 0101111111 1101011111 1101010111 111010101 0011000101 1001111100 1101010001 1001111101 1011011100 0101010101 1100010001 01010011101 01010111010 0101110101 1101110101 1101110101 1111001101 1111110101 1100010111 10011010101 1101110101 1101110101 1101011111 0100110011 1111110101 0101110001 1101010101 0101111101 1100100011 0101010101 0111010110 1111010111 1111010101 1101111101 1101000101 0111010101 1101010101 11011001101 1001010111 1101010101 1101010101 0101110101 1111111101 1101010111 1101101101 01011101010 11010111010 0111001101 1100110101 1101110011 1101111101
- Amount of stanzas: 14
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 408
- Average number of words per stanza: 74
- Amount of lines: 134
- 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; or, and, her, to, in, i, 'tis, she are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words no, reflecting are repeated.
The poet repeated the same word name at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:
- summary of The Progress Of Wit;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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