This is an analysis of the poem Prologue For The Women, When They Acted At The Old Theatre, Lincoln's-Inn-Fields that begins with:
Were none of you, gallants, e'er driven so hard,
As when the poor kind soul was under guard, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbcXddeebbaafffgghhcX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 23,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 010110101011 1101111101 11111110111 0101010101 1011110111 0101110101 1100010101 0101000101 11011100111 01001010101 1001010001 0101000111 11010100101 11011100101 1101010101 1111010101 1111011101 1101010101 1111110001 1111111101 1101010001 1101010111 0101010111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1016
- Average number of words per stanza: 185
- Amount of lines: 23
- 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; in is repeated.
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