This is an analysis of the poem The Progress Of Marriage that begins with:
Aetatis suae fifty-two,
A rich Divine began to woo... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabbccddeeffddgg cccchXggdi jjcXcceeeeddggjjkkggllee gXeeXjmmddmmggddeeeeddmmjj mmeellddbbeeccddaaddXc mXccnnooddiiddccmmmmddee ddccddll ggeeeejjeeXXea ddbbnn hheeccXeeidggeehh
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,10,24,26,22,24,8,14,6,17,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1001101 01010101 010101001 10010011 01010101 01000101 110101001 11011101 010111010 010111010 10010101 01010101 11010101 01010101 1111101 11111101 1011010001 01010111 01011111 11010101 011101010 011101010 01011101 01010101 101101010 110101010 11110101 01010101 11110101 01010110 10010101 11010111 11010011 010010011 11110111 11010110 010100101 11000111 11110101 11010101 11010001 11011101 11011111 11010101 11010111 01010101 01110101 01001001 01011101 11011101 11110001 01011101 11010001 11000101 01010101 11010111 11010111 01011101 01110111 01010101 011111011 110100011 10000101 01011101 11010101 11011101 01010101 10010101 01110101 01010101 11010101 11010101 11110101 110101111 01010001 11000111 00011101 01110101 01010101 010011101 11110101 11110101 11110001 11010101 11010001 01011001 11001111 11010001 11010101 01111101 11010101 01000110 01010111 11010101 11010101 11010011 11111101 11010111 1111010010 010111100 01010101 01110101 11110001 110100101 01010001 11011101 110100010 010101010 11010001 0111101 101101010 110101010 01010011 11010101 11110101 11011101 01110101 10010101 110111001 0101001 11010101 11011001 10110101 01110101 11011101 11010111 010101010 111101010 01000101 11010101 11010001 11001101 01110001 10010101 01010101 01010111 10011111 11011111 10011101 01010100 1101000100 1101110100 11010001 01010111 11110101 11010101 111111110 110100010 01011101 01011101 010101010 111111010 01000101 01000101 11110101 11110101 01011101 11010101 111101010 010011010 11010101 11010101 01010101 11010101 110100110 010101110
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 525
- Average number of words per stanza: 99
- Amount of lines: 166
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; her, their, and, she are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words a, she, the are repeated.
The author used the same word the at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of The Progress Of Marriage;
- central theme;
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- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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