This is an analysis of the poem The Court Of Dulness that begins with:
Her palace plac'd beneath a muddy road,
And such the influence of the dull abode, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaabbccddeeffaagggghhaaccbbaaabbffiiddeeiijjbbiXaakkeeeebbaallXXeeggeemmXX kk cciXiiggeehhlliicciiaanimmnniikkooaagXbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 74,2,40,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 0101010101 11010000101 0100101110101 11010001001 1101010101 0101010101 1001011101 01001010101 01001110101 01010111010 100101010010 1101000101 1001101101 1111010101 1001000101 0111010111 11010101111 11001011101 11110011001 1111010101 1101010111 01001011101 1011110101 1101011111 0111110110 1001110101 0101001001 01010101001 0101111101 1111010101 1101110001 1101010101 1101111111 1101111111 10101010101 0101010101 1001010101 0101010101 1001000101 0101010101 10110000101 1100110101 1101001101 0101001001 1111011101 1111011101 1101000101 110101011000 0100010101 1101100111 101110100101 11010011001 1101010101 1101010011 1001011101 01010000101 1110111101 01011010001 1101110011 0101010101 1101001101 11010001001 1111010111 11001111110 10101010101 10101011101 0011111101 1101110101 1011010011 11010100011 1011010101 0111011101 11010100111 1101011101 1001011111 1111011101 1101110010 1101010001 0001010001 11010101110 0101010101 1111010001 101000111111 1101010101 1111101101 01011011111 0101101111 1101001101 1011110101 0110010111 1101011001 0101010101 0101010111 1111010001 1111010101 01001111111 0101010101 1101010111 10011010101 1011110101 1111110101 011001000101 1011010101 0011011001 1111111101 1101011101 1101011101 1101010001 1100010011 1011110101 1011001111 11000011111 0111011101 10110111010 1111010101 1011010101
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 2634
- Average number of words per stanza: 434
- Amount of lines: 117
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- 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, and, in, his, my are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words by, my, and are repeated.
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