This is an analysis of the poem To My Dear Friend Mr. Congreve On His Commedy Call'D The Double Dealer that begins with:
Well then; the promis'd hour is come at last;
The present age of wit obscures the past:... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaaabbXbbbccXaccdddeeeeffaaXXXbbgghhiiii bbjjeeaaaajjkkbbkXaakkk bbffddjjbblldd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 40,23,14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 11010100111 0011010101 1011111111 10001011101 1101010101 111100111001 11010101100 0101000101 1101010111 11001010101 1111010111 1111011101 1100010101 0101011101 11010100111 1101010111 1101011101 01010010101 110101110101 0101010101 11011111001 1100110101 11001011101 01001010111 1101010101 1101010101 11010110101 0111000111 10001110100 0110111010100 1001011101 1111010101 1101001101 1101010111 10110100111 0101010101 1101000101 1101001101 1101110101 1100011101 1111110101 1110010111 0101010101 11011100001 1101110001 0101000101 1111110001 1101011101 1101011101 1101001110 1011001101 1011010001 1101011101 1111011101 1101110101 1101001111 1111010011 1111000100 1111010101 110101110101 0011001101 1111110001 011111111111 0111110111 1101001101 0101110111 11010010101 1000011101 1101110100 1111011101 1101010101 0101011101 0111010101 11001011101 1111010101 1111011101 1101111111
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 1122
- Average number of words per stanza: 200
- Amount of lines: 77
- 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; of, our, in, to, had, be, your are repeated.
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