This is an analysis of the poem Prologue To The True Widow that begins with:
Heaven save ye, gallants, and this hopeful age!
Y' are welcome to the downfall of the stage. ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccbbddddefXXefbbgghhiiggiigg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 32,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 10111010101 11100011001 011100101010 11010100010 10001111111 1111111011 0111110011 1110110001 0111110011 1111010111 1101010101 1101110101 1111010011 1011110100 1101111101 1111111110 1111111111 1111011100 1011110111 1101011101 1101001111 0101000101 0101011101 1101110101 1101001111 11001101101 11000010001 1101001101 1111110111 0101011101 1101010101 1101010101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1456
- Average number of words per stanza: 261
- Amount of lines: 32
- 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; and, as are repeated.
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