This is an analysis of the poem The Medal that begins with:
Of all our antic sights and pageantry
Which English idiots run in crowds to see, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcccddeeffggffhhiijkfflljjccjjhhccggllXXmmiibbffXffhheeddgghhgghhnnjjhhXeeebbllleeffjjgggeebbhheecccceemmnnggnnjjffeeffbannjjeeddggllddkkffhhhh ffoohhjXhhggppiiggjkj lleehhhhbbhhnnggbbddppqqbbllqqeeccccXn ffXhhhffccccccfffbbgXllqqjjmmmiimmhhhccnnnncceegg
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 144,21,38,51,29,31,5,2,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 0111011100 11010010101 0101010101 01010100001 1101110011 1001110101 1101011101 1101110001 1101110111 1101010101 1101110101 10010100101 10111010101 0101011101 1001010001 0111001111 1011010101 11111100111 11111010101 1111110101 11110110100 11011101001 1111011101 1011010100 010011100101 0101010101 1101010101 0101010101 1101000101 1011000101 01010001001 10001011101 1101000111 1111110011 0101100101 1111010101 0101011101 1101110001 0111110101 1001011101 1111111100 00101001101 1011010101 0111110111 0101010101 1111110101 1101110101 1111010001 1011010101 10101110110 0111000101 1101011001 1001000111 0101011101 0111010001 0101010101 10001010111 1101010001 0111000100 1101000101 1111010111 1111010000 0011010011 1101011101 1111111101 0101010011 0111110111 11010010101 1100010111 1111011101 1101110001 1111110101 1100010110 10011100101 1101010111 0101000101 10110110101 1001010101 0100111101 11010001001 1101010101 11000111001 1101010100 1101011101 1101011101 0101011101 1101000101 010100100101 01111100011 01001111100101 01011100101 10011011101 1111011101 111010101010101 1011010001 1101110101 1100101101 1101110111 1111010111 0101010101 1101011111 110110000101 01010100101 0101100101 10010010001 11110010111 1111011101 1111010101 0101110101 1111100011 0101010011 1111000001 1001010101 0101011001 11010101101 0101000111 1100110111 0101000101 10110101101 0101010101 0101010111 0011110100 1101001011 1101010101 0101001111 1110110111 1111110101 11000101011 1101111101 0110110001 1111011111 1101101101 1111010101 10010110000 1111111101 1111111101 110110111110 11011110110 0101111101 0100011101 1100110101 1101110101 11010110001 0111010101 0111110111 10001011101 1101010101 0100010001 0100111111 1010010000 1111011101 1101010110 1111110101 1111010111 11101000111 1101010101 1111001101 01011101001 1001010101 1101111101 1011010101 1101110111 11111100001 11110100110 010110110101 10111100011 1111011101 1111110110 110111010101 1111010101 11011000101 1100110111 01010111001 0101110111 1101100101 01011101001 1101010001 1101011111 1110010101 0101011101 1101011101 0111010101 1110011001 1100011101 1111010111 1111110011 110010111011 11010010101 11010100101 0101110101 1111010011 0101010101 11101110101 10010101001 1111000111 11110100101 1101011101 1111111101 1101010111 10010100101 01001101100 1101011111 11110101101 11110010101 11001110001 1100111110 0101011101 0111100011 1111010111 100100100001 1101110111 01011101011 0111010111 1011010111 1101010101 1101100101 01010101001 0101001110 1101111111 0101011001 11110011111 1100001001000 1001010011 1001110010 1101010101 11010011001 0111001101 1101010101 010100100111 1111010101 1001010011 1111010101 1101110101 11110111111 0111110101 1101010011 1111011101 1111010011 1111100101 1101010101 1111010001 11110101001 10110010001 01111010001 101010010011 1011010011 11001010101 01001110101 1101010001 0101000111 11010101001 1111010111 0101010101 0101010101 1101000101 1101110101 1101110101 1101110011 111101110111 0101111100 11110011111 11110110101 10101011011 1101011101 01110010001 1111110111 1011011101 1101011111 0101000101 11110111010 10111101010 1101110110 1111010101 1101110101 1101110101 01011101011 01010110101 1101110101 1111100101 01010101101 0100010101 01011010011 100011010101 01010101100 1111110111 0101001111 11010010101 1111110101 1111000101 01110010101 01010001001 1101010101 1101110111 01001011101 010011010001 1101001101 01010101001 1101010100 1110010101 11010010101 1111110111 01010110001001 01111100111 0101110101 11010011101 11011101001 01101010101 0101010101 111010100 11001010101 1101010101 1101000101 0101110101 1111001111 1111010101 1101111101 1101010111 1111010001 0111010111 10110010 110101110100
- Amount of stanzas: 8
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1782
- Average number of words per stanza: 311
- Amount of lines: 321
- 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; so, and, his, in, he, to, power, they, we, their, thou, thy are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words so, that, the, and, to, nor, they, thy, a are repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase joined connects the lines.
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- summary of The Medal;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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