This is an analysis of the poem Thursday, The Bassette-Table that begins with:
CARDELIA.
The bassette-table spread, the tallier come,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X aab X bXccc X ddee X ffff X ccgg X XbbhXee X ii X eejXggff X jjffhhff X cchhjjdd X eeccddffhhddee X ccff X hhjj X hXkkffiiffee X ddddddddddee X iidd X bbee X llhhii
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,3,1,5,1,4,1,4,1,4,1,7,1,2,1,8,1,8,1,8,1,14,1,4,1,4,1,12,1,12,1,4,1,4,1,6,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 100 0011010101 1110000101 1101010111 100 1101110001 1101110110 1111011001 1100110101 111111011 100 0001010101 01001110101 1111111101 0111110011 100 0101110101 0101010101 1111011101 010111101 100 0101010101 1101010101 0101111111 0101010101 100 110101010 1101011111 10010010001 11011010101 1011010111 0101111101 1111011101 10 1111010011 1101011111 100 0101001101 0101001101 1101111101 11010010101 0101010111 0101010101 1101110101 0101010101 100 0111010101 1101010011 1100010101 1101010101 1001110101 0101010101 0111011101 0110110101 100 0111010111 1101010101 1111010101 1111110101 0100110111 1111011101 0111101111 1011110011 100 1111010101 0101111001 0110000101 1111010111 1111111101 1101010111 1101111101 0101010101 1111110101 01010101001 1101000111 11110010101 0101010111 11011100101 100 1111110111 1101011111 1101101101 1101011101 100 1101110101 1101010101 1011011101 1111000101 100 1011011101 11101101100 1111110101 01010010101 1011010101 0101010101 0101010101 1101110001 10101110101 1101101101 1010111101 1101011101 100 1111011101 1101001101 1111010101 1101110001 0101010101 1111001111 11001000101 1111001101 1101010101 1111110001 1011011101 1101010101 100 1011010101 1111001101 11011100101 010010011101 100 1100010101 1001011111 11001001101 1101010101 10 1101011011 1101010111 0111011101 0100111001 0110100101 1101010111
- Amount of stanzas: 36
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 141
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 148
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i, this, she, her, when are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, and, this, she, how, the are repeated.
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