This is an analysis of the poem Canto Iv The Argument that begins with:

Alas ! The Poëms curious Model
Is Alter'd quite i'th' Poets Noddle !...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXbbcdeeXfeegXXXbb gghhiijbhhkkXbfXhhXlmmnnbXggXnkkccXbmmefhhiifmbbggXgaammXgddeennXbXXXXoonnbbppggeehhfmbXqqbbnnXgaaeXggnnXfnXggggnnjjggjjffeeggbbnneeffXXbbbbXXfXeerraaccXrjjjXccccccbbhhjjaahhccjjbXbbggfXcdeecdaabbaannnnnnaabbggnXeebbnnXjbXnneXXjggbbcXaa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 18,278,69,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: shakespearean sonnet
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 010110010 01011101 11011101 01110101 01111111 01110100 01011101 11011101 001101010 010101010 110101101 11000100 01010101 110101010 010101111 010101011 01010101 0101011 0101100101 01100110 10110101001 1001010111 0101010101 1011010101 1011110111 010010010101 1101010101 1011010001 111100101110 110000101110 0101010101 01011011101 11011111110 10011111110 10010111011 10010101011 10111101010 111111101111 11011011111 11010101111 0111110101 0101011111 0001111101 1101111100 1110010101 0111110101 1101011111 11010001101 01111101010 01010011110 1101010101 1111010101 01011101110 01011001010 1011100001 1101001101 1101011011 1001111010 1001000101 0100110001 0101100101 11000100101 11110101110 1111010011 1011010101 1101010111 1111111111 0101000101 100001111100 11010101010 1101001001 1011011101 1101010101 1011110111 111101111100 0101011101 11010111010 01010101010 11010101101 0101111101 10100010101 0101011101 01011100010 01000101110 01011101010 11010101010 10010101110 11011101100 011101101 1101011101 1111101111 1001010111 01010101010 010100111110 1101010111 0111011101 0101110111 010111110 0111110001 100100011010 11111001101 11010111011 110101001010 1101110111 11100101001 1001000111 111100101011 11001111011 11011101010 00110101110 11011101010 0110111010 11111111100 10110101010 010111010010 110110001110 01011101001 0101011100 1011100101 0111111101 11010101010 01110111010 10010101110 010001001110 0001000101 0101111110 1101010101 1101110111 1111010101 011101010 0111111101 1111101111 11011110101 11010111001 11110100101 11110010111 1101010101 010111011 1111101010 11111100010 11110011001 111110101000 1101110101 0111110111 1101100101 1101110101 0101010101 1111011111 1001000101 1011000111 11101010110 11011010010 11010100010 010101110010 10101110101 1101010001 1111110111 11001010011 1101010010 0101100100 111111010010 1101010101 1101010001 1101010111 01111011011 11010101101 01011001101 010010010101 1101011101 1001011111 1101001100 1111010111 11010111010 01110100010 11011101010 01101111100 0101010110 100101100101 1011001101 1001010111 10100111011 110010101111 1111011100 1101110001 111100101111 10110111011 1111001101 1101111101 0111111001 1101110111 0101010101 10001110001 1111111101 111110101 11001101010 11011111110 1111110101 0101001111 11110011101 11100110111 1101110111 1101010111 11011101010 11011101010 1111010111 0101000100 1111100101 1001010111 0101011111 0101111100 1011010001 1101010101 1001010111 01011010100 0101011101 1100111101 1101000101 1101110101 1111010100111 0101011011 1101111111 1001011011 0101110111 1101010101 11011110011 1110010101 11010010101 1101010101 01011111010 11110101100 1101011101 1100111111 01010101001 1100111101 1101111101 0111010101 0101110101 1111011101 01110101010 11110101010 0101111111 0101101101 1111010111 01001001010 1101010101 1111111111 0101110101 1101101101 10010011101 1000010111 1101001101 1101111101 01000111110 11011110010 1111011111 11110010011 0101000111 0011010111 1001110011 0101011101 00111110110 11011100010 1101111101 0101011101 0101011010 11011101110 1101110101 0101010001 1101110101 0101010001 1111110100 00010001100 11011110110 110010101010 10110011010 10110101010 1111101101 11110101001 0101010011 0100010101 1010111101 1110010001 11001110101 1110101011 110111010010 11110001110 0101010101 0101010101 1111010100 0101110100 1101111011 1101111111 1101111111 0111010100 01110101110 111100101110 0101111111 1101010111 1111010111 110100101 1011010101 1101011101 1101101100 0111111101 1101010001 1101010101 1101111101 1111011101 1101001100 01010101011 10110111011 1111010101 11100110110 11111101110 11010101010 1111010011 0100110111 11011101111 1111101111 1111011111 1110011111 110010101010 1111001000100 10010010101 11100001001 110110010000 11010101010 1101101101 1101010111 1101011101 1100011111 01001111111 1011010101 11010010010 10010011010 1111111001 1101110001 0111111111 0101010001 110111011 1111001101 1101110101 1101010111 1011010100 01011000100 1111110101 1111110111 10010111010 110101011110 1011111111 1001011101 1101010101 1001010101 1011000111 1101001111 1101010011 0101110101 1101010011 1001010111 1001110101 1101010101 01110101010 01000101010 11001010101 010101010101
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 5454
  • Average number of words per stanza: 960
  • Amount of lines: 365
  • 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:

    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; to, his, you, in, thy, not, me, fire, him, he are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, thy, in, a, his, this, tis, of, who, there are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines in't, him, here, sir, me, em, it, rents are repeated).

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  • summary of Canto Iv The Argument;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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