This is an analysis of the poem Epilogue To The Husband His Own Cuckold that begins with:

Like some raw sophister that mounts the pulpit,
So trembles a young poet at a full pit. ... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccbbbddddeeccbXbaXffXfffggaahhfffii
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 39,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 11110011010 11001101011 0101010111 11010101111 1011010101 1111011101 1001010101 1101111101 1111011101 11110101111 11110101010 11111111010 11101111010 01000111101 0101010101 1001010101 1011001101 0101110101 10010111110 1100111111 11010101010 11011101100 1101011111 1111111101 1111011101 1111011101 1101011111 1111110111 01010100101 0110011101 01110010001 0111110111 1100110101 110101010111 1101011101 11001010101 11001110111 1111011111 1111011101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1785
  • Average number of words per stanza: 325
  • Amount of lines: 39
  • Average number of symbols per line: 45 (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; some, as are repeated.

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

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