Epilogue To Henry Ii. by John Dryden: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem Epilogue To Henry Ii. that begins with:

Thus you the sad catastrophe have seen,
Occasioned by a mistress and a queen. ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbXcddeeddbbffgghhiijjkkiiicclll
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 34,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1101010011 0101010101 1100011111 1101010101 1101011110 1100110101 1111011111 0101010101 01101111101 0101010101 11010001001 1101010111 1111000101 1101010001 11110101010 11010101010 0100111101 1101110101 10011101101 1111010101 1001011111 1001011111 0110010101 110101010101 11011111110 11010101110 10011101111 1101110001 0111001101 1111011111 1111011111 1101111101 1111011101 1101011111
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1522
  • Average number of words per stanza: 284
  • Amount of lines: 34
  • Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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, of, i are repeated.

    The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase queen connects the lines.

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