This is an analysis of the poem Prologue To The Prophetess, By Beaumont And Fletcher. Revived By Dryden. Spoken By Mr. Betterton that begins with:
What Nostradame, with all his art, can guess
The fate of our approaching Prophetess? ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddddaabbdaeefXffgghhXXddiiaaddaajjkkkbbXXffdd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 51,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1100010111 0101010100 0111001011 1011010101 1101111101 1101110101 0101110111 1111010101 1011011001 1101011101 1001100011 1101011011 1111000101 1111010101 11101111100 11110011001 1101111101 0101011101 1010011101 11011110110 1101111111 0001010101 0111111111 1101110111 1011011101 1101010101 1011010101 0101010100 11000111111 1011110011 1101010101 1101001101 0101010101 1011010011 1101010111 1101110111 1101111101 1111010111 1111011101 1101110101 1101011101 0101010111 1001110101 1111111101 1111011111 10010101100 11010101110 1101010101 1111011101 1111011111 1001110011
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 2286
- Average number of words per stanza: 399
- Amount of lines: 51
- 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; and, our, you, with are repeated.
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