This is an analysis of the poem The Three Gossips' Wager that begins with:
AS o'er their wine one day, three gossips sat,
Discoursing various pranks in pleasant chat,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabb aacXdd ddeeaaffffaaaX ffccgggghhfXiiccff aahhffbbaaddXfbbaahhjj ffaadd ffbbff aXkkbcddhhffffggddaXhhddiiaaddee bbeeaacXlliiaaff iiffaXaaaaiimmaabbbbeeffnnffaabbge n g f f n eeee k jj f hh nf k h n fnn k e f ehh XfbbllooaX f h k e f ep k p f c kn f cb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,6,14,18,22,6,6,32,16,34,1,1,1,1,1,4,1,2,1,2,2,1,1,1,3,1,1,1,3,10,1,1,1,1,1,2,1,1,1,1,2,1,2,1,5,1,8,8,26,4,12,8,6,6,6,5,4,4,8,4,8,8,7,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 11011111101 10010010101 1101011101 1101010111 1101010111 0100011101 0111011101 1101110111 0101111111 1101011101 0111010101 0101110001 0101110011 1100101111 1101011101 0101010101 1111011101 11010010111 0110110011 1100111101 0101010101 0101010101 0100110110 1101111111 1001010101 1111010101 0101000111 0101010101 1101010101 1101110011 01010010101 0101001101 1001010011 1111011101 0111011101 110101011000 1101011101 1111011001 01010001001 0101010101 110011101 1101010101 1101110101 0101010101 1111010101 1101010001 11110100101 10111011101 1100110011 1101010101 1101001101 1101010101 0101010101 1101000101 11110101010 10010100001 0111011101 0101000101 11011100111 1111010101 01110110001 1101000101 1111011101 1101000111 1101000101 1101010101 1100110101 1101010011 1101010111 1101010001 0111010101 1101010101 11010111010 01010111010 0101010111 1101010101 0101010111 01100101100 1100010101 1101001101 1111110101 11001011101 1101011101 0101010111 1101011111 1101110101 0100011101 1111111111 1101110011 0101010101 1101111111 0111011011 1111010111 1101010101 1101110101 1111011101 1101010101 0111011111 1111010101 1110111101 0111010111 010110111 1101001111 111100101011 0111010111 1111110011 1111010101 1111111101 100100110001 1101110101 1101110101 1001010111 1101011111 1111011011 1111110001 1101010111 1101110111 1101010101 1111010101 0110110101 0111001101 1101001101 1101110101 1111010101 0101110111 1100010111 1100110111 0111100101 0101110001 0101111101 1101010101 1111010101 0111110101 1101010101 0101110011 1101010101 0101011111 0111111111 0101011001 1111010111 1111011101 1111001101 11111101011 0111001101 0101011111 0101011101 1011010101 01001001101 1111111111 1111111101 0101110111 1101110001 1101111101 1101010101 1101111111 1111110101 1101110101 1111 10 111111 10 1111 10 111001 0111101011 1101011101 1111110101 1 1101001111 1101010111 10 1111111101 0100011001 10 1101011101 1 1111 10 110101 1101101101 11011010101 1 0101010101 10 0101111101 1101010011 1101110101 1101010110 1101111101 0101010001 1111010001 1100010101 1101011101 1100111101 1111110111 11111100111 1111110110 10 110101 1 1111 10 1101010011 1111110001 1 1100110101 10 1111010001 1 1111 10 0101001 1101111111 1 1101110011 1101011111 0111111101 1100011110 101110111 10 1111011101 1011111001 1101011111 1101011101 1101010101 0101010111 0101111101 0101011101 1101010101 0101010111 0110110101 0001011001 1111011101 1101011111 1101010111 1011110101 1101010101 1101110111 0111110101 11001111101 0101011101 01011111101 1010010101 0101111101 10011110111 1101110011 1101010101 1101010111 1011011101 1101111110 0111011011 1101110101 1101010101 1111010101 1101110101 11010110110 0111110011 1101110110 0101110001 1100011101 0101010100 1100110101 10011000111 1101110111 1101111001 1101011110 0101100111 01001011101 1101010101 1101010111 0111000101 1101011101 1011000111 1110110101 0101110101 1111101101 1101010001 1111010111 1101111101 0101000111 1101110001 1111010100 1101001011 0101011101 0101111101 1111000101 0100011101 0101010101 1101011110 1101001111 1101010010 1101110101 1100110111 0101010101 1101111110 11010111101 1101010101 11011100101 0111010101 1101010111 1101010101 0101111101 1101010111 0101011111 1111110111 0101111101 1101010111 0101010101 1011010101 0111010101 1101010111 0100010101 0101100111 1111010101 1101110101 1101010001 1011010011 1111011101 0101010101 1101001111 1011010101 1101010011 11011000101 0101110111 1101010101 0011010101 1100011101 0100111101 1101011101 1111010101 0101011101 1111010111 0111110101 1101111111 0111110001 0101101101 1100011101 0111010111 1111001111 1101010101 1111010011 0101010101 0110100101 0101010101 10111011010 1101011110 011101001 0111011101 1101110001 0111110101 1101110101
- Amount of stanzas: 64
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 223
- Average number of words per stanza: 41
- Amount of lines: 351
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, and, you, i, her, at, your, for, my are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words and, to, the are repeated.
The author used the same words the, at at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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