This is an analysis of the poem Pretence. Part Ii - The Library that begins with:
A. —If then, in sooth, Pretension and Pretence,
The coxcomb's half, the worldling's double sense,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xabbccdd ee ffgghhXijj kkllccllbbdd bbmmmmjj XjddXlnn jjccnn ggcc nnmmoXcc ddmmdpdd ccXbddnn oonnqdrr eeXboo ll ccoogXoojj ffXliiccbb kk dpbbllmm aadpllXbjX ggeeccnnhXoo mmccllaaii rrjj ddgg aaXfjjssggbb gXhhllll oXjjllccssrrll Xm lXbX nnllggjjoo Xdcc ggc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,2,10,12,8,8,6,4,8,8,8,8,6,2,10,10,2,8,10,12,10,4,4,12,8,14,2,4,10,4,4,16,2,6,8,6,10,10,2,14,8,3,10,8,2,12,6,2,8,10,5,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 00101010110 0101010101 0111011101 01000100101 0101011101 10011101001 1111110101 1101011001 1011010111 110111001 11001110001 0111010001 1001110101 0110010101 110111011001 111010101 1001010111 1111101101 1101110101 01010101001 11010101001 101110011 1111010101 0111001101 1101110101 1111100101 1111110101 01110101001 1101110001 1101010101 110010101001 1101010001 1111010111 1111010101 1111111101 1101010101 1101010011 01010100101 110111101 1101001101 11110101100 1011000101 11110110101 11010010101 1101010100 11010010110 0111011101 1111010111 1111111101 11010100101 0011010101 1101011101 0011011101 1101111101 1011010101 11111101001 1101010101 1101111101 1110100111 1101010111 1101110101 1001010011 1101110101 0110010110 1111110101 1111010111 11010010101 0101010011 1101010101 1101110101 11010111101 111110100 0101110101 0101110101 11110101001 11001010101 11111101010 1111110111 01001110001 1011110101 1100011111 0101010101 1100011101 10011110111 1001111101 01110111001 1111011101 110011001 011101101001 1011011101 1110111101 1111010101 010111001010 1101011101 11010101011 0001111101 0001010101 0001011001 10010001101 1100110001 11110001010 1111011111 1101010111 0101010101 11110101010 01111101010 10111011101 0111010011 11111000111 1100101111 1111010110 010010011111 1001010101 1011110101 0101010111 0111010101 1111010101 1111011101 1101011101 0011001101 01010110101 11000100100 11001111001 1101010111 11011100101 1101110101 1101010101 11001010101 1101110101 0101100101 0101010111 1111010100 1001010111 1111000101 11010101010 1101010101 11001111101 10101010110 10011100101 11110101101 01111101101 11010100111 0111110101 1101010111 110101001 0101010101 110100111001 1100011101 11011111010 1111010101 01010100101 1111110111 10110100111 10011100111 1001010101 0111010101 1101010101 10010111001 10011101011 1001111111 10011001101 10011110101 11110100111 1101110101 0101111111 1101010101 0110010101 1101010111 1111011111 1111111101 0101011101 11111001111 1110011101 0100010101 1111110111 01111101101 10110101001 1011110111 11110010111 1111011011 1110001101 01010100111 0111110101 110101011 1111111101 1101011101 01110111001 1111010101 1100111101 1101111000 0101001011 1100011111 0001110001 1111111101 1111010101 1101011101 1111011101 11011010101 11110001001 1101010101 1100110101 1100110111 11110111110 1111110001 1111111111 0111110110 1101111111 01110111010 1100000111 1101110101 11110111001 0111011101 11101101001 1101111011 1101100111 00101010101 1101010101 11010011101 0101111110 1101101111 0111111111 1101010011 1110011111 11001011101 1111010101 11010010101 1101011101 0101010101 1101110101 0101110101 1101010101 1011111101 1101010101 1011001101 0111011101 0101010101 1001101111 1101000101 1001010111 11011100001 1101010101 1101011100 1110010111 0101011111 1101010101 010101101 1101110101 1011110101 10001110110 1111110101 0101110111 11000111001 1011010011 10110010101 11111010101 1001010111 11110111010 11001111010 1101110101 11110110001 1111111101 1101111101 110101011010 1101010111 1111010101 1101010101 1101110101 0101111101 1101011101 1111010111 1011100001 1011110101 1001011101 0110110111 0001011100 01001110001 10110101001 1011110111 11011111110 11010101010 1111011101 1001010101 1101110011 11001010111 111110101 0101010101 1101010110 1101011111 1111010111 0111110101 1110110101 1101010001 1111110111 0011010111 1101110101 0110110111 1111010101 0101110101 1111010100 0111110111 1101110101 1111011101 1111010111 0101010101 1101010111 1101011101 1101110101 010100011 11010011101 0101010101 110111011 1101111101 1101010100 1111010101 1101111101 1001110101 1111110101 1111010101 1101110101 001001110111 1011110111 01100100110 1001100101 11010010101 1001010101 11010100111 1111010101 11001010101 010100010101 11011100001 1101010001 1001011101 11001000101 01001010111 11110010101 1111001111 0101010001 11110011101 110101010110 1111110101 1111110101 1001111111 1101110001 11010011001 1101010011 1101010111 11011010101 1100111101 1101011110 1101110101 1101110001 1111010111 0101110101 1101011011 0111010110 01011100101 11001101100 111101010110 1001011101010 1111011111 0010101101 11001010111 11011101001 1111010111 1100010011 10111110011 1011011111 11000101101 1011011101 1111010101 1101110101 10111111101 1101110101
- Amount of stanzas: 52
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 321
- Average number of words per stanza: 57
- Amount of lines: 373
- 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; to, and, more, in, thou, be, with, our, of, her, all, or, then, from are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words here, and, if, or, e'en, then are repeated.
The author used the same words and, come at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Pretence. Part Ii - The Library;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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