This is an analysis of the poem The Quid Pro Quo; Or The Mistakes that begins with:

DAME FORTUNE often loves a laugh to raise,
And, playing off her tricks and roguish ways,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeeffaa ggccgghhii iijjggccjjeeffha hhccaaiicc aaeeffkk ggiillddhhhhgglliiiilb iiggiicc iiiillhh gXiiiicciimmllffaa iiiiggccffaa iiggiidd kkffkkffddnniihhiiccii ddllhh ccnnii ccXXff cceeaakk iiccggcciiii aaoohh
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,10,16,10,8,22,8,8,18,12,8,22,6,6,6,8,12,6,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 1101010101 1101011101 01010111010 11110110010 1101010101 11010101001 11011111001 1101110101 0101101101 1101011111 0101110001 1101001101 0101010101 1101010101 1111010101 0101010011 0001111011 0101110111 1101001001 0101010101 1101010101 1111010101 0101111101 01010010101 0101100101 1101110101 0101000101 1101011101 0101110101 0101110101 0100100101 1011111101 1101010101 1111001101 11100010011 1111111101 1101001101 0101010111 01111101010 0100111101 1100110111 1101010001 1111110111 0101111101 0101011001 1101010001 1111010001 0101011101 0111010101 1101001101 0101011111 1101010111 0100110101 1101010101 01010100001 1001110101 1101000101 1111110101 0100010101 0101010101 1111011111 0110010101 1101001001 1001010101 1100110101 0101000111 0101010110 0101011101 1111100101 0111111011 1101010111 1111011101 1100101101 1101010101 1101010111 1111010111 0111011101 1111110011 1101010101 01011101010 1101110101 1111010001 1001010101 1101010101 0101000101 1001010101 1111000101 0111010101 0101000101 1100011101 0111010101 01110101001 0100011101 1101010101 1011111101 1111010101 1111110011 0111110111 1101010111 1100010111 110100111010 11010111010 11010111001 0111010101 0101111101 0111010001 1101011101 1101011101 1111010101 0101111101 1111010101 0111011101 1101010101 11010101001 0101000101 1101010101 1101011001 0111011001 010100010 0111110101 0101110101 0111010001 1100011111 1101010101 0101111101 1101010101 1101101111 1101010101 1001010111 1101010111 0101110101 0111110001 0111110101 0101011001 0101010111 1110010101 0101011101 1100010101 0100111111 0111010101 0101000101 1101010101 1101011001 0101010101 0101010101 1111010001 1011001111 0101111101 1101010111 0101010101 1101010101 0101011101 0101110111 0100100111 0101010101 1100011101 0111010101 1101010101 1101010011 1101110101 0100010100 1101011001 01010100111 0101011001 0100100101 1101010101 0101110101 1111110111 0100010101 0101010001 1001010101 0101111101 01000011111 1100010101 1001110001 1101110101 1101010101 0101110101 0101011101 1101110101 1001000101 0101010101 110110101 0101010101 01011101 10010010001 1111110101 1111000101 0101011101 1001010101 0100111101 1101110101 1001001101 010100001 1101110111 1101110101 11011001111 1111001111 1111110110 1101010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 18
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 475
  • Average number of words per stanza: 86
  • Amount of lines: 200
  • 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, to, have, he, be are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word the is 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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