This is an analysis of the poem An Epilogue that begins with:
You saw your wife was chaste, yet throughly tried,
And, without doubt, you are hugely edified; ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbbcccddeeddeeffbXddddXfaaXXggffccbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 37,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1111111101 10111110100 1111011101 1111011001 1101010101 0111001111 11101110001 11111101010 11010100010 0100110111 1101010101 1111010111 0101110011 1101011001 1111010101 0101111101 1111011010101 1110110111 011101000 11111100111 111010110101 1101100101 1001010111 11001001110 1101010101 1111010001 0101110111 01110101000 110010001100 10101110001 1111010011 110101111 1101001101 1101100101 1111010111 0101111101 11001011101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1621
- Average number of words per stanza: 291
- Amount of lines: 37
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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; you, in, of, and are repeated.
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- summary of An Epilogue;
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- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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