This is an analysis of the poem Pretence. Part I - Table-Talk that begins with:

A. —True! nor recant I—true! I did engage
That e'en in this most seeming virtuous age,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbbbcc de Xffeeffbb bbggaaff hhdXbb iihhXjkk ccbbXjgX ggbb ggbbllee eeXbcc eeXfgg mmllggnnolee ffggddbb ee kkeellggdXdd eebbbbggmm mmffbbbbffeeggffccffpp bb Xkbb XXeeeeXlkkqqeeee mm bbbbggff XXfX hhbbgg ggee bbbb bbdd llXXgg ee ffkkmX eecciikk eerrhhbb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,2,9,8,6,8,8,4,8,6,6,12,8,2,12,10,22,2,4,16,2,8,4,6,4,4,4,6,2,6,8,8,6,4,2,1,7,12,4,4,14,5,2,12,4,4,7,4,8,2,10,12,12,3,2,6,5,1,6,10,16,2,4,6,4,8,2,8,4,8,5,4,12,2,12,6,2,9,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 01101111001 110001101001 0111011101 11111001101 1111011101 1111110101 0101010101 0111011101 11111010100 1101 0110110 1011110101 1101000101 1001011101 1101010111 11010100010 11010100110 1011110101 1111110101 1101111111 11001100111 1101010101 1100111110 10111110100 001110101001 01010101010 1101011001 0110110101 1011010101 0111011101 1101011110 0101010101 110100011101 01011101010 110101111010 11111111001 1111010101 111011111 10001111101 11110111001 1101011101 11010100101 11001011101 1111011101 1101011001 0101010101 1110110101 11001110101 0101111110 1101111101 1101010101 01011010101 1111010101 10001101001 1111101101 0101010111 1110010101 1111010101 1111111111 1101110111 1101101111 0111110101 1001111101 10111101000 11011100101 1111010101 11110101101 1101010101 11011100101 11001111000 1111111110 01010010101 1111010101 10111100101 0111110111 1101010101 11110101001 1101011101 0101011111 1011010101 1111110111 1101111100 0101110101 11011100001 11110011001 1111110101 0101011101 1111111101 1101000100 1101011101 1011000111 1101010101 1101010111 0101011111 1101010111 1111010111 1101010101 1101010111 0101010101 1111011101 1101000111 1111000111 1101110101 11111100001 1101110111 1101110111 1101010101 1101010101 1101111101 1111111101 1101011101 1111010101 0101010101 1111110101 0111010101 1111010101 1101111101 1111110011 1111010111 1111010101 0101110101 1101110101 11010101001 1101011101 1101110101 11110100101 0101110101 1111111101 110010100101 1111000101 0101110111 0101110101 1101010100 11011000111 1001110101 10001110111 01011101001 11110010101 0101110101 1111000101 1111010101 111110010111 1101010011 1011010101 1101111101 0111110100110 1101011110 1101010101 1101010101 1111010101 1101010111 1101011100 11000100101 1111011101 11110010001 1111010111 1101110101 1111010111 1011110101 1101010101 1101110101 1111011111 1111110101 01001011101 01110011101 11010011101 1011111100 1111011101 1101010100 1101110101 0101010101 1111011000 1101010101 1010011001 1101011101 1001110111 0111011101 01110101011 0101110011 11010100101 0011010101 1111100101 0111010101 1001011101 1001110101 1011011101 1111010101 1001010101 1100010101 1101011111 0101111101 1101011111 1101110111 1110000101 0101010101 11010100101 1111110101 1001010101 11000010101 1101010111 1101010101 1101011101 1100011101 1001110111 0101100101 10001010111 010011101010 0101101101 1001000101 10100010101 11110010111 11110111010 11110111110 11001110111 11001010101 01010111111 11101011101 01011111110 01010101010 11110111001 1101011101 1101011101 01010010101 1101110101 0101010101 1111010101 1011010001 1001000111 11001110101 11011010111 1111111101 1101100011 1111010101 1011111101 1101011101 1110111111 00101110101 1111010001 1101000101 1101110101 1101011011 01011110001 1011110101 1101110111 1011010100 1101010111 1101010101 11010101101 1101010011 1101010101 01011100101 0101010001 11001010101 1101111101 1101010111 10101111111 11001011001 1111110111 01001111101 00101010101 1111110101 01011000010 11110111110 1101011101 1111110101 1111110101 1101011101 1111110101 0110010101 10010101001 1101011101 10110111101 1101000101 10101010101 10111110101 1101000101 1111111110 1111111111 1111011101 0101110111 1101011101 0101010101 1101011001 1111011101 11111111001 1010110100 11001010101 1101110101 11010111001 0101110101 1111010101 0111010011 1111111101 1111010101 11001010101 10011011001 1111010110 1101010101 1101010111 1111110111 11110111001 01000101111 0111010101 1001000101 0111010111 0101010111 1101010111 0101010111 1101110101 1011111100 1101110100 1101000110 1101111101 0110110101 11001111100 1101000101 11010100111 0101010101 01011101001 1011110101 1111010101 11110111001 1101110101 1011011101 11110101001 0101110101 0101110101 1011110101 10110011010 11011011111 01010110101 110110101 0111010001 1011011111 0011010101 1110001111 11111111110 10011110101 0100011111 110010010101 0101110101 0101010111 1101010101 11110101101 0101110101 10111001111 0101011111 1101110111 0101010101 1100110001 0111010001 10101010101 111100101001 1101011111 1101011101 0101111101 11010110001 1111110001 1101010101 01011011001 1111000101 010101 11101 0101110111 01101111101 1101011111 0101110101 1101010101 11110010101 0111011101 1111010101 1101000101 1111010101 0101011101 1111110010 11111101100 010110111001 1011110101 1101011001 00111001101 01001110101 1101110001 1110011101 0101000101001 0111010101 1001110101 0101011101 0101011101 1111011111 1100111110 1101110101 1101010101 10101000101 1100011101 1101110101 1011110101 11010010101 1111011101 01110100111 1101010001 10110100011 11010111001 1111001101 1101110101 1001111101 0111010101 1101000111 1011011001 1111111101 11010111001 01011100111 0101111101 11010010101 01011010101 11001010111 11010100100 1111110101 1101111101 1011010101 1111000101 1001011101 1101011101 11110101010 1101010111 1001011110 001110011101 01001001101 1101001101 10111001101 0101110011 01110101001 111111011 100111010010 10111101010 1111010101 0101110101 11010111001 1101011101 1011111101 10010111101 1101111101 1111011101 01010101010 010101011000 1101011101 10010110010 1001100101 1001010011 1111110101 0111110101 0101100111 1111001101 10110101001 1101110111 1111010101 1101010101 0101110001 11110111001 1101110101 10101010101 1101010111 1101010101 1111100111 1101010101 0111000101 1101010101 11111010101 00110010101 01110010111 1111111101 10110101001 1111110101 1011010101 11010111101 11111111001 1101100111 1101010101 1101010101 1101010101 1011010101 1101010001 1101011100 0101010111 11110010001 1111111101 0100010101 1011010111 1101010101 1011010101 11010001010 11110101110 1111011101 0101110101 1101010101 0100110101 10101110101 1101110111 1101011101 110101110101 0111101111 10110110111 11110101101 0010010101 10010011101 101111101101
  • Amount of stanzas: 79
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 286
  • Average number of words per stanza: 51
  • Amount of lines: 505
  • 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; or, its, and, for, to, ', his, we, of, how are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words if, or, as, and, how, are, servilio, e'en, granta, still, oh are repeated.

    The author used the same word for at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines ' is repeated).

    The poet repeated the same word more at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

If you write a school or university poetry essay, you should Include in your explanation of the poem:

  • summary of Pretence. Part I - Table-Talk;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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