This is an analysis of the poem Prologue To Albumazar that begins with:

To say this comedy pleased long ago,
Is not enough to make it pass you now. ... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccXXddeeddeeffggcdcceeeeggeebbeehhiiccjjggff
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 48,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 0101001101 0101010111 1100111011 1111011101 1100110110 1011000101 1011111000 1100100100 1111011101 1101011101 1111001101 1101010101 1110010011 1111110101 1011110101 1111111111 1001000111 1111010101 1111011101 1111100101 1101010101 0111010111 1101011001 1100010101 1011110101 1111110111 1001010101 1101011101 1001000101 1110000101 1101010111 1011000101 1101001111 1101011101 1111111101 1010011001 110100010100 11010101110 11010111010 110111111110 1100110100 1101111101 1111110101 1111011101 0111011101 1101111100 1111000101 1111111111
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 2139
  • Average number of words per stanza: 387
  • Amount of lines: 48
  • 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; he is repeated.

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